The Return Of The Repressed
Professor Geoffrey Hosking investigates the communal amnesia found in Soviet society.
The Reith Lectures · BBC Radio 4
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Show Notes
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?