Confronting the Stalinist past: The politics of memory in Russia

Washington Quarterly

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 93-109

  Sherlock, Thomas ^a  

^a UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY   (United States)

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EID: 79953157444     PISSN: 0163660X     EISSN: 15309177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0163660X.2011.562115     Document Type: Article

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39. For further discussion, see Thomas Sherlock, Historical Narratives in the Soviet Union and Post-Soviet Russia (New York: Palgrave, 2007).
40. For perceptive analysis of this issue, see Miller, Kasianov, Traba et al., ''The Politics of History.''