TY  - BOOK
AU  - Satter,David
TI  - It was a long time ago, and it never happened anyway: Russia and the communist past 
SN  - 9780300111453 (cloth : alk. paper)
AV  - 338 DK 267 S253w 2012
U1  - 947.084/2 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - New Haven
PB  - Yale University Press
KW  - Stalin, Joseph,
KW  - Kommunisticheskaëiìa partiëiìa Sovetskogo Soëiìuza
KW  - History
KW  - Soviet Union
KW  - Narodnyæi komissariat vnutrennikh del
KW  - Komitet gosudarstvennoæi bezopasnosti
KW  - Atrocities
KW  - Public opinion
KW  - Communism
KW  - Russia (Federation)
KW  - Unión Soviética
KW  - Historia
KW  - 1925-1953
N1  - 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
N2  - "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
ER  -