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On a number of occasions in the course of this book I have drawn attention to major and minor errors in recent Soviet publications about the past. Sometimes these are simply mistakes; but often they are due to the bias of the author. The debate about history is a debate about politics. The much greater frankness about the past has not produced an entirely objective or even an entirely accurate history. The protagonists of a more radical approach to Soviet history are sometimes cavalier with their facts and hasty in their judgements.
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The method used to construct the index is described by Ya. P. Gerchuk in Voprosy kon”yunktury, ed. N. D. Kondrat’ev, vol. 2, part i (1926), pp. 79–106; see also Ekonomicheskii byulleten’ Kon”yunkturnogo Instituta, no. 2, 1926, pp. 12–20.
Larisa Piyasheva, ‘Ekonomist Nikolai Kondrat’ev’, Sotsialisticheskaya industriya, January 14, 1988; see also her article in Druzhba narodov, no. 7, 1988, pp. 179–226.
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Davies, R.W. (1989). Truth and Bias in the New History. In: Soviet History in the Gorbachev Revolution. Studies in Soviet and Society. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20060-3_14
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