Russian liberals opened the way for return of Stalinism, Inozsemtsev says
That is because the ways they chose to attack Stalin had the effect of separating the dictator from…
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Stalin-era city names to be used in occupied Donetsk, Luhansk as part of “great victory” cult
“Voroshilovgrad” and “Stalino” On 16 April, Leonid Pasechnik, head of the Russian occupation administration of Luhansk, signed a…
Holodomor: Stalin’s punishment for 5,000 peasant revolts
Why revolts took place in Ukraine but much less frequently in other parts of the Soviet Union In…
‘Any effort to establish a dictatorship in Russia will end with a Stalinist one,’ Ikhlov says
The recent arrests of Russian government officials Abyzov and Ishayev like the earlier ones of Belykh, Ulyukayev and…
Kremlin readying a return to totalitarianism, Ponomaryov and Ikhlov say
All too often, Lev Ponomaryev and Yevgeny Ikhlov warn in a new commentary, observers focus on one or…
A new GULAG is emerging just as Stalin’s did slowly and insidiously, Gudkov warns
A “new GULAG” is emerging in Russia “right before our eyes,” opposition politician Gennady Gudkov says. For the…
Putin views Russians as ‘divided people,’ thus threatening all Russia’s neighbors, German historian says
A core element of Vladimir Putin’s worldview is that the Russians are “a divided people,” German historian Wilfried…
Putin thinks he’s winning and is expanding his Stalinist attack on West, Pavlova says
Many in the West following the decision of more than 20 countries to expel Russian diplomats to show…
Why the Holodomor is genocide under UN convention: On Anne Applebaum’s Red Famine
Between 1932–33, Stalin sought to wipe out the very concept of an independent Ukraine by targeting its peasantry…
Six characteristics define today’s Stalinists and explain their large influence, Pavlova says
“Stalinist,” like many epithets, is not so much an explanation as something that needs to be explained, US-based…
Putin elites want ‘Stalinism without Stalin’ and ‘repression with a human face,’ Rubtsov says
Russians do not, by their nature, “love Stalin,” Novaya gazeta commentator Aleksandr Rubtsov says; instead, they “are being…
Kremlin-promoted, mythologized Russian past opens the way to a return to Stalinism
Many expected that with the passage of time, new generations of Russians would reject the worst aspects of…
Russia’s imperial crackdown on the memory of indigenous victims of deportations
Imperial nostalgia against the memory of victims In June 2017, a month after the 73d anniversary of Sürgünlik…
‘The fish is rotting from the head’ for the second time in Russian history, Eidman says
“A fish begins to rot from the head,” Russians say, “and society descends into insanity following its dictator.…
‘Stalin’s second coming will require victims,’ Moscow paper says
Stalin is enjoying a rebirth in the Russian Federation, one that enjoys the support of the population, according…
“Culture can help us stitch our country together without blood”: Crimean Tatar filmmaker
The film title refers to the family story of the author. In the late 1950s, Crimean Tatar artists…
Punished peoples fight Putin’s war on history with monuments to their deportations
A new book documents the way that the peoples whom Stalin deported are seeking to preserve the memory…
Educating monsters: Russia’s new minister of education
The recent appointment of Russia’s new minister of education might interest our readers if only because the dismissed…
Russian poet Sergey Gandlevskiy: We’re plunging straight into hell!
Russian poet Sergey Gandlevskiy was recently arrested in the Moscow metro for tearing down a portrait of Soviet…
Crimean Anschluss opened way for justification of Stalin and Soviet system, Zubov says
The Crimean Anschluss opened the way for the “completely open” justification of Stalin and thus of everything Soviet…