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21: Comparative Russian Imperialism

The Making of Modern Ukraine

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Is the Putin Regime Really Better Than Putin?

The Putin regime has been about a kind of denial of everything that has happened before, he says. "I have a strong suspicion that the real reason was to compare his own regime favorably with what had been the failure of the Soviets" The state must not resist it or disallow it, But in terms of thinking about the past, I think it's more significant in terms of society than it issignificant in terms of the state.

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