02580cam a22004454a 4500 118776 20230410103808.0 110606s2012 ctu b 001 0 eng 16811592 2011022685 015903378 Uk 9780300111453 (cloth : alk. paper) 0300111452 (cloth : alk. paper) (OCoLC)ocn150336399 DLC DLC YDX BTCTA BAKER YDXCP ERASA UKMGB BWX DOS OCLCO COO DLC pcc e-ur--- 338 DK 267 S253w 2012 947.084/2 Satter, David, 1947- It was a long time ago, and it never happened anyway : Russia and the communist past / David Satter. New Haven : Yale University Press, c2012. xii, 383 p. ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-364) and index. 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. "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. Unión Soviética Historia 1925-1953. 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). Kommunisticheskaëiìa partiëiìa Sovetskogo Soëiìuza History. Soviet Union. Narodnyæi komissariat vnutrennikh del History. Soviet Union. Komitet gosudarstvennoæi bezopasnosti History. Stalin, Joseph, 1879-1953. lcc bk MAAM 25956 25956 0 0 lcc 0 0 RR BJB BJB RR 2023-04-10 1 0 338 DK 267 S253w 2012 00000111853 2018-10-23 00:00:00 1 2018-10-23 bk