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The Shadow of History
When 28 civilians were killed in Athens, it wasn’t the Nazis who were to blame, it was the British. Ed Vulliamy and Helena Smith...
How did Joseph Stalin react to the German invasion during WWII?
Joseph Stalin reacted extremely slowly to the invasion of his country by German forces in 1940. Indeed, not only did he react slowly, but...
Stalin’s Breakdown
During his thirty-year rule of the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin succeeded in stifling all opposition. There was never a serious threat to his leadership....
No party, no socialism
June 3, 2005
The right wing has attacked historian Moshe Lewin’s new book, “The Soviet Century,” which covers the Soviet Union from the early 1920s...
Early Soviet Films – a portrait of revolutionary Russia
Remarkable collection of early Soviet films on DVD: The New Man—Awakening and Everyday Life in Revolutionary Russia
By Bernd Reinhardt
29 December 2017
A notable...
The Soviet Century by Moshe Lewin
The senior historian of the Soviet Union presents a powerful and original analysis of the warring between Lenin and Stalin and the collapse of...
Lenin’s Last Struggle
“Lenin’s Last Struggle” recounts a losing campaign against the emerging Stalin
By Gary Bono
January 22, 2016
I have previously written about the excellent and informative book,...
The End of Bolsheviks: From Triumph to Tragedy
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Great Purge
This article is about the 1936–38 Soviet purge. For the general article about political purges, see Purge.
The Great Purge or the...
How Xi Jinping’s presidency was shaped by traumas of Mao and...
Centrist approach to reform of China’s society and party comes from study of where two communist leaders went wrong
By Simon Denyer
Friday 6 March 2015
To...
The October 1917 Revolution started off the transformation of the world...
The aim of this chapter, written especially for the 100th anniversary of the October 1917 Revolution, is certainly not to denigrate this first gigantic...