The Sound of Utopia: Musicians in the Time of Stalin – Silencing tactics in the Soviet Union
Nevertheless, The Sound of Utopia infuses a bleak subject with verve, inspiring admiration for musicians so dedicated to ...
John Wayne terrified KGB hitmen ordered by Stalin to assassinate Duke
John Wayne survived Stalin's assassination order on his life by terrifying the KGB hitmen sent to take him out.
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The Often Misunderstood History of the Soviet Dissidents
In To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause, historian Benjamin Nathans sheds light on how the protest movement reinvented itself ...
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Expert on Stalin terror put in punitive solitary confinement
Russian historian Yuri Dmitriyev is serving 15-year sentence which human rights organisations say is politically motivated.
Russia's Disastrous Winter War on Finland Could Give Clues on Ukraine Endgame
Ukraine must not accept a "Finlandization" deal struck following a previous invasion by Moscow 85 years ago, experts tell ...
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Discover the Story Behind a Legendary Exposé of the Brutality of the Soviet Union
Published on this day in 1973, "The Gulag Archipelago" drew on Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's experiences as a ...
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RUSSIA: Man of the Year, 1939
The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet conferred on Tovarish Stalin the Order of Lenin and gave him the title of “Hero of Socialist Labor.” Shop committees, laborers’ clubs, Soviets ...
English schoolchildren preferred Stalin out of all the military leaders of the Second World War
British schoolchildren preferred Joseph Stalin out of all the commanders of the Second World War. This was stated by a member ...
Russia's Orthodox patriarch, marking Christmas, says West trying to smother Russia
The patriarch of Russia's Orthodox Church, celebrating Christmas alongside Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin, said on Tuesday that the Western world despised Russia and its "alternative path of civilised ...