From Stalin to Putin – Russia’s history of torture | Documentary

Torture in Russian captivity is systematic. In a new documentary, The Kyiv Independent’s War Crimes Investigations Unit uncovers the torture of Ukrainian civilians held by Russian forces and traces ...

Exit Stalin: The Soviet Union as a Civilization – Accessible history of a new society

He is not the first to use this approach. American historian Steve Kotkin, in his ground-breaking 1995 book, Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as a Civilisation, depicted the Stalin years as a distinct ...
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Understanding Stalinism and Russia Collective Memory

This video explains why Joseph Stalin’s image has regained prominence in modern Russia by examining the historical, ...
SFGate

Stalin’s postwar terror targeted Soviet Jews – in the name of ‘anti-cosmopolitanism’

(THE CONVERSATION) Many Americans know of Josef Stalin’s Terror of the late 1930s, during which more than 1 million people were arrested for political crimes, and ...

Jochen Hellbeck’s “World Enemy Number 1, Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, and the Fate of the Jews”

With great empathy for the Soviet people, the German-American historian Jochen Hellbeck deliberately opposes the efforts to ...
The Atlantic

Putin Decides That Stalin’s Victims Were Guilty After All

Recently, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s government announced the “rescission” of a 1991 law officially rehabilitating past victims of political tyranny. Beginning in the late ’80s, an ...
Newsday

A statue of Stalin is unveiled in the Moscow subway as Russia tries to revive the dictator's legacy

MOSCOW — A monument to Josef Stalin has been unveiled at one of Moscow's busiest subway stations, the latest attempt by Russian authorities to revive the legacy of the brutal Soviet dictator. The ...