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Author Satter, David, 1947-

Title It was a long time ago, and it never happened anyway : Russia and the communist past / David Satter.

Imprint New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2012.

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 Axe Special Collections Whitehead  947.0842 Sa83i 2012    ---  Lib Use Only
Description xii, 383 pages ; 25 cm
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-364) and index.
Contents The statue of Dzerzhinsky -- Efforts to remember -- Butovo and Kommunarka -- St. Petersburg -- The appeal of communism -- The responsibility of the state -- The trial of the communist party -- Moral choice under totalitarianism -- The roots of the communist idea -- Symbols of the past -- History -- The shadow of Katyn -- Vorkuta -- The odyssey of Andrei Poleshchuk.
Summary Russia today is haunted by deeds that have not been examined and words that have been left unsaid. A serious attempt to understand the meaning of the Communist experience has not been undertaken, and millions of victims of Soviet Communism are all but forgotten. In this book the author, a former Moscow correspondent and longtime writer on Russia and the Soviet Union, presents a striking new interpretation of Russia's great historical tragedy, locating its source in Russia's failure fully to appreciate the value of the individual in comparison with the objectives of the state. He explores the moral and spiritual crisis of Russian society. He shows how it is possible for a government to deny the inherent value of its citizens and for the population to agree, and why so many Russians actually mourn the passing of the Soviet regime that denied them fundamental rights. Through a wide-ranging consideration of attitudes toward the living and the dead, the past and the present, the state and the individual, the author arrives at a distinctive and important new way of understanding the Russian experience.
Subject Kommunisticheskaia partiia Sovetskogo Soiuza -- History.
Soviet Union. Narodny komissariat vnutrennikh del -- History.
Soviet Union. Komitet gosudarstvenno bezopasnosti -- History.
Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953.
Soviet Union -- History -- 1925-1953.
Atrocities -- Soviet Union -- History.
Atrocities -- Soviet Union -- Public opinion.
Communism -- Soviet Union -- History.
Communism -- Soviet Union -- Public opinion.
Public opinion -- Russia (Federation)
Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953. (OCoLC)fst00053304
Kommunisticheskaia partiia Sovetskogo Soiuza. (OCoLC)fst00549733
Soviet Union. Komitet gosudarstvenno bezopasnosti. (OCoLC)fst00515555
Soviet Union. Narodny komissariat vnutrennikh del. (OCoLC)fst00586350
Atrocities. (OCoLC)fst00820727
Communism. (OCoLC)fst00870421
Communism -- Public opinion. (OCoLC)fst00870446
Public opinion. (OCoLC)fst01082785
Russia (Federation) (OCoLC)fst01262050
Soviet Union. (OCoLC)fst01210281
Chronological Term 1925-1953
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN 9780300111453 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0300111452 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780300192377 (pbk.)
0300192371 (pbk.)
Standard No. 99946094219
Sudoc No. HIS2020

 
    
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