Soviet history

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• 6/18/2023
  

  A Historian of Photographic Defacement in the USSR Faces His Own Erasure

  by Olga Shevchenko

  Like the human rights group Memorial, photographic historian Denis Skopin has run afoul of the Russian state for his efforts to preserve knowledge of Soviet abuses of human rights and historical memory.

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• 7/24/2022
  

  Learning About Stalin from His Books: An Interview with Geoffrey Roberts

  by Aaron J. Leonard

  Researchers who access Stalin's books will find the dictator's library a source of insight into his political thinking and engagement with ideas (and his pithy marginalia), but not a Rosetta Stone for understanding his capacity for atrocity. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  5/6/2021
  

  ‘State Funeral’ Review: Saying Goodbye to Stalin

  Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa’s documentary shows the aftermath of Josef Stalin's death, using footage shot at the time across the Soviet Union. 

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• SOURCE: Woodrow Wilson Center and National History Center
  4/9/2021
  

  Washington History Seminar – Stalin: Passage to Revolution, Monday, April 12

  Ronald Grigor Suny of the University of Michigan joins the Washington History Seminar on Monday, April 12 to discuss "Stalin: Passage to Revolution" at 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/17/19
  

  It’s time to do away with laws enforcing triumphal national histories

  by Matthew Lenoe

  Such ‘memory laws’ have become weapons for right-wing nationalists.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/1/19
  

  Fierce, feared and female: The WWII pilots known as the ‘Night Witches’

  Their planes were rickety crop-dusters, but the Soviet women turned them into killing machines.