Sarah C. M. Paine — Why dictators keep making the same fatal mistake
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Paine could enter a Russian foreign ministry archive but consult only the czarist period. She later sought records in US presidential archives. A substitute collection changes the vantage point as well as the coverage.
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I actually got into the foreign ministry archives there, but only for the czarist period.spent two months every summer going to U.S. presidential archives.