It Was a Long Time Ago, and It Never Happened Anyway
It Was a Long Time Ago, and It Never Happened Anyway Russia today is haunted by deeds that have not been examined and words that have been left unsaid. In this book, David Satter, a former Moscow…
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It Was a Long Time Ago, and It Never Happened Anyway
Russia today is haunted by deeds that have not been examined and words that have been left unsaid. In this book, David Satter, a former Moscow correspondent and long-time writer on Russia and the Soviet Union, presents a striking new interpretation of Russia's great historical tragedy, locating its source in Russia's failure fully to appreciate the value of the individual in comparison with the objectives of the state. A serious attempt to understand the meaning of the communist experience has not been undertaken and millions of victims of Soviet communism are all but forgotten.
He shows how it is possible for a government to deny the inherent value of its citizens and for the population to agree, and why so many Russians actually mourn the passing of the Soviet regime that denied them fundamental rights. Satter explores the moral and spiritual crisis of Russian society. Through a wide-ranging consideration of attitudes toward the living and the dead, the past and the present, the state and the individual, Satter arrives at a distinctive and important new way of understanding the Russian experience.