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Source: NYT

10-1-15

Yuri N. Afanasyev, Historian Who Repudiated Communism, Dies at 81

Mr. Afanasyev, a Russian historian and former Communist loyalist, became a leading democratic politician in the late Soviet era.

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Yuri N. Afanasyev, Historian Who Repudiated Communism, Dies at 81