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Article: Stalin: The Glasnost Revelations.
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- National Review
- Article date:
- December 3, 1990
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Ulam, director of the Harvard University Russian Research Center, is the author of among other books, The Bolsheviks and Stalin: The Man and His Era.
ONCE AGAIN Walter Laqueur has performed a remarkable feat of historiography. Some three hundred thirty pages of text may seem hardly adequate to summarize the vast literature about Stalin, to evaluate the new information about the tyrant that has become available thanks to glasnost, and to fathom the meaning of the astounding historical phenomenon which was Stalinism. Yet, the author has succeeded with balance and succinctness. And the subject is not merely of historical importance. Stalin-or more precisely what ...
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