Canadian Journal of History, August 1st, 1999
The Living and the Dead. The Rise and Fall of the Cult of World War II in Russia, by Nina Tumarkin. New York, Basic Books, 1994. xii, 242 pp. $22.00.
In recent years conventional wisdom asserted that Marxists failed to appreciate the force of nationalism in their analysis of history. It seems that the authors under review here, though examining different aspects of Soviet Communist history, and pursuing their studies along divergent paths, arrive nonetheless back ar this same conclusion. Raymond Pearson traces the interaction of nationalism and empire in eastern Europe and Willie Thompson s...
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