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448 pages, Hardcover
First published February 6, 2020
The USSR of the thirties, while leading to better living standards and greater opportunities for the general population, also resulted in trauma on an unprecedented scale. (location 3028)and
The Gulag may have been filling up under Stalin at an appalling pace, but at the same time, literacy rates in the USSR nearly doubled by the end of the decade. (location 3374)It's a testament to how the memory of the USSR is receding that people can write such things and not receive the ridicule they deserve. Imagine the censure an author might receive for similar sentiments about Hitler's Germany.