Truth-telling, conscience and dissent in late Soviet Russia: Evidence from oral histories

European History Quarterly

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2000, Pages

  Boobbyer, Philip ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conscience; Dissent; Oral history; Reform; Soviet

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248085609     PISSN: 02656914     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/026569140003000404     Document Type: Article

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2. on ritual, see C, Lane, The Rites of Rulers (Cambridge 1981)
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4. see also his 'Two Levels of Public Opinion: The Soviet Case', Public Opinion Quarterly, Vol. 49 (1985): 448
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6. See also on this subject Tim Remington, The Truth of Authority: Ideology and Communication in the Soviet Union (Pittsburgh 1988), 85
7. Quoted in Geoffrey Hosking, A History of the Soviet Union (London 1990), 404
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17. Quoted in Scott Peck, People of the Lie (London 1983), 107
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60. Sergei Kovalev, April 1999
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67. Boris Belenken, April 1996
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74. Nikita Petrov, July 1995
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76. Shveikovanie: after the hero of the novel The Good Soldier Schweik, by Czech novelist Jaroslav Hasek, who was good at getting out of tricky situations
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78. Anatolii Krasikov, April 1998
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92. A point made in conversation with the author by Dr Philip Walters, Keston Institute, Oxford
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