Coercion remains the most effective means of falsifying history

Evidence

Having fabricated your history, how do you put it across? This varies from country to country and from regime to regime. The most effective method of promulgating falsified history is of course coercion. This was universal in the Soviet Bloc, and although it is no longer applied there, it still persists in other parts of the world, where only one version of historical events is permitted, other versions being forbidden and punishable. Even in a democratic state the use of coercion is still a possibility, by selective legislation. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 1845

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting…, 1845
• XREF: connects to: History is falsified by coercion, intimidation, and pressure when direct force fails — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting…, 1847; Violent intimidation suppresses historical scholarship where state coercion cannot; Coercion must increasingly disguise itself as improvement to sustain power
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: History is falsified by coercion, intimidation, and pressure when direct force fails — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting…, 1847; Violent intimidation suppresses historical scholarship where state coercion cannot; Coercion must increasingly disguise itself as improvement to sustain power

Broader Connections

• History is falsified by coercion, intimidation, and pressure when direct force fails #expands (0.95) — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 1847
• Coercion must increasingly disguise itself as improvement to sustain power #complicates (0.80)
• Violent intimidation suppresses historical scholarship where state coercion cannot #complicates (0.75)