Beyond Homo Sovieticus:
Soviet identity as
a weapon of mass
deconstruction
Michael Gentile and Dmytro Potekhin argue
that in Donbas, Soviet identity rapidly evolved
from being a faint regional identity into a
weapon of mass deconstruction.
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