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In the Gorbachev era Soviet writing about the pre-revolutionary past has been both more objective and less predictable. Sometimes the earlier hostility to the tsarist period has even been replaced by a somewhat naive enthusiasm.

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Davies, R.W. (1989). Russia Before the Bolshevik Revolution. 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_2

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