Bibliograph

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

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

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

It was a long time ago, and it never happened anyway

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

150336399

Responsibility statement

David Satter

Sub title

Russia and the communist past

Summary

"Satter 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, Satter arrives at a distinctive and important new way of understanding the Russian experience." -- From publisher's description

Table Of 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

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