@article {688320,
	title = {Tumult frees Russian soul from long Soviet nightmare (Editorial)},
	journal = {Taking Bearings. Harvard Blogs },
	number = {December 28},
	year = {1991},
	abstract = {
	Devoid of an industrial base, the Russian peoples labored through political purges and unworkable five-year plans in a desperate game of catch-up with the western world.



	Suffering everything that befell them, the Russian devotion to their motherland remained strong.



	The heroism and self-sacrifice of the Soviet peoples helped stop Hitler in his tracks. Yet for many soldiers returning from the West, reward for faithful service was a train ride to the gulag.



	Twenty million people died. Stalingrad, Smolensk, Leningrad, Kiev, Minsk, and a hundred other cities lay pummeled. Galleries, libraries, and cathedrals were plundered or destroyed\&nbsp;



	The Russian soul endured. (download to read more)

},
	url = {https://blogs.harvard.edu/kleelerner/taking-bearings-tumult-frees-russian-soul-from-long-soviet-nightmare-editorial/},
	author = {K.Lee Lerner}
}
