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In the years of Brezhnev and Andropov most Soviet historians were tamed and silenced by the orthodoxy imposed by the party. With few exceptions, they remained quite passive in 1987, when writers and journalists were already calling for a profound reassessment of the Soviet past. But in 1988 they became leading actors in the drama of rival ideas. In the autumn Pravda published an important series of articles by Danilov, Lel’chuk, V. A. Kozlov and others, based on their work for the never-to-be-completed party history. Throughout the next three years substantial articles by historians about the Soviet past appeared in periodicals and newspapers. The most prominent historians frequently appeared on TV.
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E. Gaidar, Gosudarstvo i evolyutsiya (1995); 10 000 copies.
G. Bordyugov and V. A. Kozlov, Istoriya i kon“yunktura: sub”ektivnye zametki ob istorii sovetskogo obshchestva (1992), pp. 345–7; they invoke the French historian Coquin in their support.
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Davies, R.W. (1997). The Future of the Soviet Past. In: Soviet History in the Yeltsin Era. Studies in Russian and East European History and Society. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25420-0_18
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