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.
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