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Originally published 02/09/2018
Who Killed More: Hitler, Stalin, or Mao?
Ian Johnson
7 years ago historian Timothy Snyder asked the provocative question: Who killed more, Hitler or Stalin? Maybe he should have included Mao, too.
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Originally published 01/29/2018
The Russian historian giving Stalin’s victims back their identity
Anatoly Razumov says his work is greeted with “indifference” at home.
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Originally published 01/25/2018
In Russia, ‘The Death of Stalin’ Is No Laughing Matter
“The Death of Stalin,” a blackly comic movie about the Soviet leader and his cowed entourage, has been denounced as a sacrilegious portrayal of those responsible for victory over Fascism. And now it has been pulled from theaters.
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Originally published 09/26/2017
Historian Anne Applebaum Details Stalin's War Against Ukraine
"I Believe It Was Genocide"
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Originally published 07/31/2017
Russia deems a historian’s textbook dangerous to the health of children
Why? Because it covers the crimes of Stalin.
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Originally published 07/18/2017
Hunter of Stalin's mass graves on trial in Russia
Friends say he's been framed.
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Originally published 06/27/2017
Stalin More Popular Than Putin, Russians Say
Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin has been voted the most “outstanding” figure in Russia’s history, beating the country’s most beloved poet, Alexander Pushkin, and current Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
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Originally published 04/28/2017
Supporters Rally Around Accused Russian Historian Of Stalin's Crimes
Yury Dmitriyev painstakingly assembled a Book of Remembrance that includes the names of 13,000 Great Terror victims.
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Originally published 09/28/2016
Historian EP Thompson denounced Communist party chiefs, files show
Declassified MI5 records reveal party member thought leaders misled rank and file over Stalin’s crimes at height of cold war.
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Originally published 07/29/2016
Historian James Harris says Russian archives show we’ve misunderstood Stalin
James Harris
If you think of Stalin as a bloodthirsty, paranoid, political opportunist determined to secure total power over all other considerations, you’re wrong.
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Originally published 03/14/2016
Stalin, Russia’s New Hero
The gulag is a distant memory. In today’s Russia, people pine for an era of order and superpower status.
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Originally published 02/02/2016
Stalin 'used secret laboratory to analyse Mao's excrement'
A former Soviet agent says he has found evidence that Joseph Stalin spied on Mao Zedong, among others, by analysing excrement to construct psychological portraits.
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Originally published 12/15/2015
I Spent Years Interviewing a Soviet Ballet Star for a Biography
Joel Lobenthal
What I learned is especially important to remember at a time of crisis in Russian-American relations.
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Originally published 12/02/2015
Hitler’s Plan to Kill Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill—at the Same Time
David Brown
During World War II, heads of state were on high alert for assassination attempts.
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Originally published 07/28/2015
We Need to Come to Terms with the Russian People’s Support Today of both Stalin and Putin
Walter G. Moss
Any effective U.S. foreign policy must not just vilify leaders, whether Saddam Hussein or Putin, but recognize and try to understand why so many foreign citizens think differently than we do.
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Originally published 07/22/2015
Unwanted gift from Stalin, Warsaw Palace of Culture turns 60
Warsaw’s Palace of Culture and Science has been derided as an oppressive eyesore ever since Soviet dictator Josef Stalin built it as his personal gift to the city.
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Originally published 02/17/2015
Why Is a French Library Refusing to Carry a History of Stalin’s Russia?
Michael Dwyer
The book, by Geoffrey Roberts, was published by Yale University Press. Is this a case of censorship?
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Originally published 11/30/2014
NYT lauds newest biography of Stalin. It's by Stephen Kotkin.
Kotkin's new study depicts Stalin as an autodidact, an astute thinker, “a people person” with “surpassing organizational abilities; a mammoth appetite for work; a strategic mind and an unscrupulousness that recalled his master teacher, Lenin."
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Originally published 11/28/2014
Stalin, Father of Ukraine?
Yes, he was a murderous tyrant, but he was also a father of today’s Ukraine.
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Originally published 10/16/2014
Russians Mark the Start of World War II in 1941. Here's Why They're Wrong.
Roger Moorhouse
Russians like to pretend they were uninvolved in WW II until Hitler's attack. This is a lie.
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Originally published 10/06/2014
A city devoted to Maoism - a place where Stalin is revered as a hero of the people
John Summers
The town tells an alternative story to that of China's breakneck economic growth and rising consumerism, one of nostalgia for those days of Mao suits, Marxism and austerity.
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Originally published 06/19/2013
Russian textbooks to present "balanced" view of Stalin
...[New Russian history] guidelines [proposed by Vladimir Putin] ... attempt to paint a “balanced” picture of Stalin’s rule. They describe Stalin as a modernizer who brought about Russia’s ultra-fast industrialization, laid the foundation for the Soviet Union’s scientific achievements and its victory in World War II, but also orchestrated mass purges “to liquidate a potential fifth column” and used forced labor to achieve an economic breakthrough.The soft-lens picture of Stalin is consistent with some of Putin’s utterances on the tyrant. “I very much doubt that had Stalin had the atomic bomb in the spring of 1945, he would have used it on Germany,” Putin said during a recent visit to the state-owned Russia Today TV station.
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Originally published 05/21/2013
Masha Gessen: Are Totalitarianisms Like Snowflakes?
Masha Gessen is a journalist in Moscow and the author of “The Man Without a Face,” a biography of Vladimir Putin.MOSCOW — Just saying that a Jew should have been made into a lampshade does not make you an anti-Semite, or so a prominent columnist asserted recently. And just because both Nazism and Soviet Communism were totalitarian regimes does not mean they are comparable. Such arguments, counterarguments and variations of them have dominated Russian blogs, social networks and some of the traditional media for the last week.
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Originally published 02/26/2013
Benjamin Schwarz: Review of Karl Schlögel's "Moscow 1937"
Benjamin Schwarz is The Atlantic’s literary editor and national editor.In this dazzling 650-page feat of historical reconstruction, Karl Schlögel, a professor at the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), has summoned up a great city—what was once the New Jerusalem for much of the world’s intelligentsia and downtrodden—as it consumed itself in an orgy of fear, paranoia, denunciations, mass arrests, suicides, and executions.Schlögel’s book is a fragmentary yet meticulous social history of Moscow in the grip of the Great Terror—the period from the summer of 1936 to the end of 1938, when the already sanguinary Bolshevik regime let loose on itself its apparatus of suppression, purging, in waves, all Soviet institutions and at all levels of society, from the nomenklatura, the highest echelons of administrative, cultural, and scientific life, through the high command of the Red Army, to the engineers and apparatchiks, down to the factory workers and peasants. It is an almost impossibly rich masterpiece.
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