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He tells this story in his just-published memoir "Against the Grain" (Summit Books), an exercise in selfcongratulation that is probably the first Soviet campaign biography.
Yeltsin's Challenge 2008
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Its fiftieth anniversary celebrations in October 1995 had been much more a moment of selfcongratulation and platitude than analysis.
DELIVER US FROM EVIL William Shawcross 2000
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Its fiftieth anniversary celebrations in October 1995 had been much more a moment of selfcongratulation and platitude than analysis.
DELIVER US FROM EVIL William Shawcross 2000
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But this period of smug selfcongratulation was soon succeeded by a strange nostalgia which took the form of romanticizing the lost land.
Greener Than You Think Ward Moore 1940
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