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Tntroduction to SUNsite Russian Archives (495 words) |
 | The legendary secretiveness and general inaccessibility of the entire Soviet archival system was maintained throughout the Gorbachev era. |
| This exhibit illustrates both the domestic and the foreign policy of Soviet rule. |
| The first section covers internal politics and aspects of Soviet reality that were hidden or falsified in official propaganda. |
| Russia: nostalgic for the Soviet era, by Jean-Marie Chauvier (3229 words) |
| The same era was famously described by Ludmilla, daughter of peasants brutalised during the kulak persecution, who managed to move into a different world and set out, in the city, towards social improvement (13). |
| She says that sectors that met social needs during the Soviet era and raised the standard of living modestly are now in decline. |
| There is paradox: many people miss the spirit of friendship in the old multinational Soviet communities of workers and immigrants; and deplore the new frontiers, the political and financial obstacles to the freedom to travel and the dispersal of families and groups of friends. |
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