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Fitzpatrick, a doyenne of Soviet historians, offers the lay reader a concise, chronological account of the Soviet Union premised on the notion that accidents, rather than inevitabilities, drive human ...
The often misunderstood history of the Soviet dissident movement. In To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause, historian Benjamin Nathans sheds light on how the protest movement reinvented itself at key ...
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Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Art Canons and the Cold War -- Part One: Painting by Marxism: American Art in Soviet Reflection -- Chapter 1 The Ugly Shapes of ...