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Deceived but triumphant Clio

Forgery of written sources on Russian history in the twentieth century

This book continues the previous book by V. Kozlov on the history of falsification of historical sources in the 18th-19th century: Mysteries of Falsifications: Analysis of Falsifications of Historical Documents in the 18th-19th Centuries (1996). This book, like the first one, introduces sensational and little known cases of forgeries of historic documents: V. Lenin`s letter; a diary of Anna Taneeva-Vyrubova, the closest friend and maid of honor of the last Russian Empress Aleksandra Fedorovna: a literary mystification by the Russian writer Aleksei Tolstoi and the historian P.E. Shchegolev; Resolutions and letters of the Soviet Foreign Ministry (1934-36), etc. This book shows motifs and technology of forgery, their typical features and trends. The book may be used as teaching aid to a course in Russian history. Comments.