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This article doesn't inform which subjects were suppressed and which ones were invented by the party, eg. the anti-Katyn research.Xx236 (talk) 13:26, 3 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

This article doesn't inform which historians were persecuted.Xx236 (talk) 09:54, 4 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Many texts listed under Further reading are obsolete. Texts published after 1986 are preferred.Xx236 (talk) 10:04, 4 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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It is claimed that "The law of large numbers or the idea of random deviation were decried as "false theories"" in the subsection "Reliability of statistical data". However, since there were numerous statistics and probability theory books published in the Soviet Union during different time periods, it is impossible for this statement to be correct, as the law of large numbers, or random deviations are the core of a mathematical statistics or probability theory course. Indeed, one version of the law of large numbers is named after the Soviet mathematician Andrey Kolmogorov.

Would anyone accept an article on a Western historiographical school, however controversial or discredited, that made almost no mention of the specific texts and historians involved and which spent the vast majority of its wordcount polemicizing against the school? Should the Whig history article be pared down to include only Constitutional History of England? From this article you'd almost think that the Short Course was the only work of Soviet history that ever had any influence or impact. For all the talk about suppression of certain lines of research, this article itself contributes to the continuing suppression of detailed knowledge of Soviet intellectual life. When Robert Conquest is named more times in an article on a socialist historiographical tradition than any historian within that tradition, there is a huge problem. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.220.235.165 (talk) 18:55, 17 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Do you have any specific suggestions? - Altenmann >talk 20:11, 17 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]