“In 1949, during Stalin's reign as dictator of the Soviet Union, obituaries in the Communist-controlled newspapers stopped including the ages of those who died”
“In 1949, during Stalin's reign as dictator of the Soviet Union, obituaries in the Communist-controlled newspapers stopped including the ages of those who died, "presumably for fear of revealing a dec…”
“A footnote in the book reports that in the late 1980s, Bailyn "gently chided" Ned Keenan, then chairman of the department, "for sporting a polo shirt in the History Department library one summer."”
