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  <title><![CDATA[The Unquiet Ghost: Russians Remember Stalin]]></title>
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  <default_description>Although some twenty million people died during Stalin's reign of terror, only with the advent of glasnost did Russians begin to confront their memories of that time.  In 1991, Adam Hochschild spent nearly six months in Russia talking to gulag survivors, retired concentration camp guards, and countless others.  The result is a riveting evocation of a country still haunted by the ghost of Stalin.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1994</original_publication_year>
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  <read_at>Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1999</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Jul 03 15:33:28 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Jul 03 15:41:52 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this for my infamous humanities 351 class (that Marie never took--alert TSPC).  <br/><br/>What was bad about the class:<br/>--While discussing oppression, everyone loved the sound of their own voice bleating out random, misinformed opinions! I cringed at almost every other comment.<br/>--...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2684620">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[When I reviewed Mr. Hochschild's ealier book King Leopold's Ghost I found it wonderfully researched and written, and I couldn't put it down, nor could I forget it. I believe he has done it again. There are many reviewers here who have done a terrific job of describing this book in detail.However,wha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42000602">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Aug 10 08:38:54 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Hailed by the Los Angeles Times as &quot;An important contribution to our awareness of the former Soviet Union's harrowing past and unsettling present.&quot;  Adam Hochschild is a wonderful storyteller who captured my interest immediately.  This book was assigned reading for my Key Individuals in Hi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4359911">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[An older book I somehow forgot to read when my wife gave it to me 10 years ago. It is about Russia as the Soviet Union was dissolving, looking at the painful legacy of the Stalin years. It is was intended as something of a current events book, and much of the detail is severely outdated. But it is a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13526824">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Sep 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[An in depth exploration of Stalin's purges, the gulags, and an attempt to explain how Russians allowed Stalin to kill 20 million other Russians. ]]></body>
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    <review id="77463129">
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  <read_at>Mon Nov 16 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Fantastic commentary and analysis of the Stalin purges.  Also a very helpful bibliography for those who have an interest in the history of the Soviet Union]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Hochschild seeks to understand how normal people can carry out atrocious crimes in general and more specifically how normal people can do that to people &quot;just like them&quot;.  He focuses on crimes under Stalin and interviews scores of people--both victims and perpetrators--searching for an ans...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/522674">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="1316380">
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  <read_at>Wed Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a difficult book to get through. You start to ask yourself how much more bad Stalin stories you can take. Here's the gist, Stalin was bad. But, as historians or people interested in history, I think it's important to keep asking how he managed to fool his own people for so long. From this bo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1316380">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[What I got out of the book is the frightening realization that as a human being I am capable of doing horrible things and at the same time I am capable of doing amazing things. If I was living in Russia at this time in these places I could have very easily been either a prison guard or a prisoner. I...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8154525">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[a look into the not-too-distant past...  i learned more about Stalin and 20th century Russian history reading this book than i ever learned in school.  <br/><br/>let's all hope this doesn't happen again - by communists, islamofascists, or any extremist political &amp;/or religious group...]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Jul 29 15:54:57 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[just began it]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Imagine a woman in a goulag weeping when she hears Stalin is dead . . . This is a frank contribution to a difficult discussion.  How does Russia feel about Stalin?]]></body>
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