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Cuba, le livre noir
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ISBN: 2707142786 9782707142788 Year: 2004 Publisher: Paris La Découverte

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Remembering Stalin's Victims : Popular Memory and the End of the USSR
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ISBN: 1501717952 9781501717956 9780801475962 0801475961 0801431948 9780801431944 Year: 2018 Publisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press,

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In Remembering Stalin's Victims, Kathleen E. Smith examines how government reformers' repudiation of Stalin's repressions both in the 1950s and in the 1980s created new political crises. Drawing on interviews, she tells the stories of citizens and officials in conflict over the past. She also addresses the underlying question of how societies emerging from rep1;essive regimes reconcile themselves to their memories. Soviet leaders twice attempted to liberalize communist rule and both times their initiatives hinged on criticism of Stalin. During the years of the Khrushchev "thaw" and again during Gorbachev's glasnost, anti-Stalinism proved a unique catalyst for democratic mobilization. Under Gorbachev, dissatisfaction with half truths about past atrocities united citizens from all walks of life in the Memorial Society, an independent mass movement that eventually challenged the very notion of reform communism. Smith investigates why citizens risked confrontation with the Communist Party in order to promote recognition of the victims of Stalinism and recompense for their survivors. Efforts to acknowledge the bitter legacy of totalitarian rule, while originally supporting a stable statesociety reform coalition, ultimately provoked "radical" demands for openness about the past, official accountability, and institutional guarantees of human rights, Smith explains. The battle over the Soviet past, she suggests, not only illuminates the dynamic between elite and mass political actors during liberalization, but also reveals the scars that totalitarian rule has left on Russian society and the long-term obstacles to reform it has created.

Global matrix : nationalism, globalism and state-terrorism.
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ISBN: 1783719095 1849644705 1281750603 9786611750602 1435660781 9781435660786 9781849644709 0745322913 0745322905 9780745322919 9780745322902 9781281750600 9781783719099 6611750606 Year: 2005 Publisher: London Pluto


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Gustave Courbet's Les casseurs de pierres : aspects of a major work of art
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ISBN: 8772881704 Year: 1988 Publisher: Aarhus Aarhus university press

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