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Night of stone
death and memory in twentieth century Russia
By Merridale, Catherine
- ISBN
- 978-0-67089-474-1
- Publisher
- New York : Viking, 2001.
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Reviewed on March 1, 2001
Merridale (history, Univ. of Bristol), the author of Moscow Politics and the Rise of Stalin: The Communist Party in the Capital, 1925-32 (1990) and Perestroika: The Historical Perspective (1991), offers a history of the Soviet Union from the perspective of the Russian view of death. The plodding beginning (a 30-page foreword) gives way to insightful historical perspective. This work is in line with recent histories by Gregory Freeze (Russia: A His...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
