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Radio 4,15 Nov 1988,30 mins

SeriesGeoffrey Hosking - The Rediscovery of Politics

The Return Of The Repressed

The Reith Lectures

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Geoffrey Hosking, Professor of Russian History at University College London, explores the issues of a collective memory in his second Reith lecture from his series entitled 'The Rediscovery of Politics'. In this lecture entitled 'The Return Of The Repressed', Professor Hosking describes how Soviet society is recovering from a state of communal amnesia. Only with a common history can a society move forward cohesively, but has Soviet society succumbed to a totalitarian rewriting of the past?

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