Exit Stalin: The Soviet Union as a Civilization, 1953-1991 by Mark B. Smith Groundswell Speaker 2024 Bad Taste is a revelatory

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Exit Stalin: The Soviet Union as a Civilization, 1953-1991 by Mark B. Smith Groundswell Speaker 2024 Bad Taste is a revelatoryAn extraordinarily atmospheric and powerful history of the world's largest country and its decline and fall. With Stalin's death, the Soviet Union remained a repressive, harsh and belligerent place, but one which became more predictable for its citizens and one which made a genuine attempt to create the egalitarian, progressive country that the Russian Revolution had once promised. That this attempt would fail was not clear until the 1980s. Mark B.