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Auteur(s) : Satter, David (1947-....)
Titre(s) : It was a long time ago, and it never happened anyway [Texte imprimé] : Russia and the communist past / David Satter
Publication : New Haven : Yale University press, c2012
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xii, 383 p.) ; 25 cm
Comprend : 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.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-364) and index
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
Sujet(s) : Stalin, Iosif Vissarionovič (1879-1953)
Communisme -- URSS -- Histoire
Communisme -- URSS -- Opinion publique
URSS -- Histoire
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780300111453 (cloth) (alk. paper). - ISBN 0300111452 (cloth) (alk. paper). -
ISBN 9780300192377 (pbk.). - ISBN 0300192371 (pbk.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb435807459
Notice n° :
FRBNF43580745
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