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Myth Serves the War Effort

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Although the party had officially denounced Pokrovskii’s ideology and issued specific directives on the future approach to history, members of the Pokrovskii group did not give up the ghost without persistent attempts to reassert their former influence.

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Roberts, S.E. (1965). Myth Serves the War Effort. In: Soviet Historical Drama. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-0867-4_7

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