Abstract
In 1961 Stalin’s embalmed body was moved out of the mausoleum in Red Square. ‘We must break down the false image of Stalin in the minds of the people if we are to build a better society’, a Soviet historian assured me in 1963. In the 1970s, however, almost no criticism of Stalin was permitted in the Soviet press; the problem of Stalin was dealt with by rarely mentioning him.
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Anatolii Rybakov, Children of the Arbat (London, 1988); the novel first appeared in Russian in Druzhba narodov, nos. 4–6, 1988. For a careful discussion, see J. Barber in Detente, no. 11 (1988), pp. 8–11.
Sotsialisticheskaya industriya, June 25, 1988 (O. Volobuev and S. Kuleshov).
Isakov told at least two versions of this story, one to Konstantin Simonov (Znamya, no. 5, 1988, p. 73), and the other to
L. Gurunts (Zvezda, no. 3, 1988, pp. 184–5). The essentials are the same, but the details vary considerably.
Moskovskaya pravda, September 4, 1988; the historian was N. G. Pavlenko.
Literaturnaya gazeta, September 28, 1988 (O. Moroz).
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Sotsialisticheskaya industriya, September 1, 1988; Zhukov’s letter was to the writer A. D. Sokolov.
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Ogonek, no. 3, 1988, pp. 13–5 (A. Livanova).
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The discussion is summarised by J. Ellis and R. W. Davies in Soviet Studies, vol. ii (1950–1), pp. 209–64. We of course knew nothing of Stalin’s role behind the scenes.
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Davies, R.W. (1989). Stalin and his Entourage. 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_5
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