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Since Gorbachev came to power in 1985 there has been a widespread and unprecedented revaluation of Soviet history and a heated debate about the future development of Soviet society, far surpassing the earlier reassessment which took place under Khrushchev. Literature has played a very important part in this process, opening up new subjects for historical enquiry and challenging historians to produce a deener analysis of their countrv’s nast.
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Marsh, R. (1992). Reassessing the Past: Images of Stalin and Stalinism in Contemporary Russian Literature. In: Graham, S.D. (eds) New Directions in Soviet Literature. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22331-2_6
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