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For a long time, studying Soviet society seemed an impossible task. For many, in fact, understanding the Soviet Union was not simply a question of knowledge, since political and social issues, even civilisation itself, were at stake. Hence it was a topic far too important to be left to researchers. Would a sane person leave war to the military alone?
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Notes
R. Lew and V. Thanassekos, ‘Les enjeux du débat actuel sur le totalitarisme’, Contradictions (1987) No. 51, p. 47 sqq.
S. Weil. Oppression et liberté (Paris. 1967) p. 162.
For ahistorical aspects in the research of H. Arendt’s Origins of Totalitarianism (1951)
see Raymond Aron’s ‘L’essence du totalitarisme’, Critioue. January 1954.
Cf. J. A. Getty, Origins of the Great Purges: The Soviet Communist Party Reconsidered, 1933–1938 (Cambridge, 1985)
G. T. Rittersporn, Simplifications staliniennes et complications soviétiques: Tensions sociales et conflits politiques en U.S.S.R., 1933–1953 (Paris, 1988).
H. Liebersohn, ‘Weber and Women,’ Telos (Winter 1988–9) No. 78, p. 123.
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Lew, R. (1992). Grappling with Soviet Realities: Moshe Lewin and the Making of Social History. In: Lampert, N., Rittersporn, G.T. (eds) Stalinism: Its Nature and Aftermath. Studies in Soviet History and Society. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-12260-8_1
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