Russia and the communist past Satter, David 1947- creator text bibliography ctu New Haven Yale University Press c2012 2012 monographic eng

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xii, 383 p. ; 25 cm. "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. 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. David Satter. Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-364) and index. e-ur--- 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 338 DK 267 S253w 2012 947.084/2 9780300111453 (cloth : alk. paper) 0300111452 (cloth : alk. paper) 2011022685 DLC 110606 20230410103808.0 118776