Putin's struggles with Soviet history.

Gulf News (United Arab Emirates) | September 21, 2009 | Copyright

Byline: Alexander Etkind Special to Gulf News

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's recent article for the Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza - written to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Nazi invasion of Poland - expresses his determination to make twentieth-century European history a major part of the Russian government's business. That article reflects the deep, unresolved problems of Putin's era: the inability to distinguish between the Soviet past and the Russian present; an unscrupulous mix of political conservatism and historical revisionism; and ...

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