Olga Freidenberg’s journals recorded the indignities and horrors of daily life in the Soviet Union.
Everywhere the same question: Who will rule Russia? If a triumvirate, can it long endure or does the Soviet structure demand a single head? Will there be orderly elimination or violence? If violence, ...
Stalin’s War: A New History of WWII, by Sean McMeekin (Basic Books: 2021), 864 pages. The peoples of the Russian Federation—despite the imperishable cynicism that so many express on matters ...
Is there any point to another Stalin biography? Before the opening of the old Soviet archives, three decades ago, the best historians mastered the limited available sources and proceeded to fill in ...
John Cheyne and William Stokes were nineteenth-century doctors who described a sort of labored, interrupted respiration sometimes seen among the dying. Their names have been part of everyday Russian ...
A story from the first wartime meeting between Franklin Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin goes like this. FDR was housed at the Soviet legation in Tehran, Iran. One morning the Soviet dictator looked in on ...
This week, yet another poll confirmed Joseph Stalin’s unwavering hold on the popular imagination of Russians. Surveys have documented steadily rising admiration for the Soviet leader in the last ...
A poster of Joseph Stalin hangs in a shop window in Mukden, China, in 1946.George Lacks—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images Today, when a photograph of Barack Obama or a Kardashian or Lionel Messi — or, ...
• The tale circulated online for years, but this new version uses the story to criticize anti-COVID-19 measures. • The anecdote was written decades after Stalin’s death by an anti-Stalinist author who ...
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