LEADER 03712nam 2200709 a 450 001 9910458003803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-37128-6 010 $a9786613371287 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300178425 035 $a(CKB)2550000000075671 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH24486818 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000570873 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11931383 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000570873 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10611314 035 $a(PQKB)11335074 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3420771 035 $a(DE-B1597)485892 035 $a(OCoLC)952777413 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300178425 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3420771 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10521216 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL337128 035 $a(OCoLC)923597087 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000075671 100 $a20110606d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aIt was a long time ago, and it never happened anyway$b[electronic resource] $eRussia and the communist past /$fDavid Satter 210 $aNew Haven $cYale University Press$dc2012 215 $a1 online resource (416 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-300-11145-2 311 $a0-300-17842-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aThe 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. 330 $aRussia 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. 606 $aAtrocities$zSoviet Union$xHistory 606 $aAtrocities$zSoviet Union$xPublic opinion 606 $aCommunism$zSoviet Union$xHistory 606 $aCommunism$zSoviet Union$xPublic opinion 606 $aPublic opinion$zRussia (Federation) 607 $aSoviet Union$xHistory$y1925-1953 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAtrocities$xHistory. 615 0$aAtrocities$xPublic opinion. 615 0$aCommunism$xHistory. 615 0$aCommunism$xPublic opinion. 615 0$aPublic opinion 676 $a947.084/2 700 $aSatter$b David$f1947-$0847818 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910458003803321 996 $aIt was a long time ago, and it never happened anyway$92486055 997 $aUNINA