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Article: Remembering Stalin's Victims: Popular Memory and the End of the USSR.
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- The Nation
- Article date:
- September 23, 1996
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Since its founding in the Soviet Union in 1987, the Memorial Society has been concerned with investigating Soviet-era repressions as well as commemorating them. The demand for a monument to victims of terror was soon coupled with the idea of a research center to reveal more of the history of unfreedom in the U.S.S.R. Kathleen E. Smith, an assistant professor of government at Hamilton College, has done an admirable job of explaining how Memorial grew within the educational community, broadly defined: As the organization spread across the former U.S.S.R., it often found allies in teachers' colleges, libraries and museums rather than in the Communist Party and local government. ...
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