It Was a Long Time Ago, and It Never Happened Anyway Russia and the Communist Past

David Satter, "It Was a Long Time Ago, and It Never Happened Anyway: Russia and the Communist Past"
English | ISBN: 0300111452 | 2011 | 400 pages | PDF | 2 MB
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.