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The seventy-odd years that have passed since the Russian revolution have been too short to draw final conclusions about the fortunes of the communist social system in general or of the Soviet Union in particular. Nevertheless, seventy years have been long enough for communist society to ripen and manifest its basic nature.

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Zinoviev, A. (1991). Crocodiles Cannot Fly. In: Tismaneanu, V., Shapiro, J. (eds) Debates on the Future of Communism. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11783-3_6

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