The Return Of The Repressed
Professor Geoffrey Hosking investigates the communal amnesia found in Soviet society in his second Reith Lecture.
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?
Last on
Broadcast
- Tue 15 Nov 1988 09:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
Featured in...
![]()
Archive 1976-2012—The Reith Lectures
Annual radio lectures on significant issues, delivered by leading figures.
New to the Reith Lectures? Here’s where to start
Four lectures recommended by the series producer.
Podcast
-
![]()
The Reith Lectures
Significant international thinkers deliver the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's flagship annual lecture series
