Soviet history

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• 7/24/2022
  

  Learning About Stalin from His Books: An Interview with Geoffrey Roberts

  by Aaron J. Leonard

  Researchers who access Stalin's books will find the dictator's library a source of insight into his political thinking and engagement with ideas (and his pithy marginalia), but not a Rosetta Stone for understanding his capacity for atrocity. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  5/6/2021
  

  ‘State Funeral’ Review: Saying Goodbye to Stalin

  Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa’s documentary shows the aftermath of Josef Stalin's death, using footage shot at the time across the Soviet Union. 

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• SOURCE: Woodrow Wilson Center and National History Center
  4/9/2021
  

  Washington History Seminar – Stalin: Passage to Revolution, Monday, April 12

  Ronald Grigor Suny of the University of Michigan joins the Washington History Seminar on Monday, April 12 to discuss "Stalin: Passage to Revolution" at 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/17/19
  

  It’s time to do away with laws enforcing triumphal national histories

  by Matthew Lenoe

  Such ‘memory laws’ have become weapons for right-wing nationalists.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/1/19
  

  Fierce, feared and female: The WWII pilots known as the ‘Night Witches’

  Their planes were rickety crop-dusters, but the Soviet women turned them into killing machines.