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It Was a Long Time Ago, and It Never Happened Anyway - Russia and the Communist Past (Paperback)
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It Was a Long Time Ago, and It Never Happened Anyway - Russia and the Communist Past (Paperback)
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List price R670
Loot Price R578
Discovery Miles 5 780
You Save R92 (14%)
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A veteran writer on Russia and the Soviet Union explains why Russia
refuses to draw from the lessons of its past and what this portends
for the future 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 David Satter, 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. 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.
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