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27%OFFDavid Satter - It Was a Long Time Ago, and it Never Happened Anyway - 9780300192377 - V9780300192377
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It Was a Long Time Ago, and it Never Happened Anyway

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Description for It Was a Long Time Ago, and it Never Happened Anyway paperback. A veteran writer on Russia and the Soviet Union explains why Russia refuses to draw the lessons of its past and what this portends for the future Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLW; JPFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 155 x 28. Weight in Grams: 508.

A veteran writer on Russia and the Soviet Union explains why Russia refuses to draw from the lessons of its past and what this portends for the future

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 ... Read more

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.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780300192377
SKU
V9780300192377
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50

About David Satter
David Satter is senior fellow, Hudson Institute, and fellow, Foreign Policy Institute of Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. He was Moscow correspondent for the Financial Times from 1976 to 1982, then a special correspondent on Soviet affairs for the Wall Street Journal.

Reviews for It Was a Long Time Ago, and it Never Happened Anyway
"A book full of vivid and well-chosen anecdotes."—Financial Times "David Satter has written a book full of vivid and well chosen anecdotes. . . . The use of nostalgia is Satter's field. Russia is not, he believes, able to give itself a chance; in love with their chains, its people cannot face up to the horrors of a past ... Read more

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