Josef Stalin

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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: Puck
  3/8/2022
  

  The Anniversary of Stalin's Death Shows Authoritarianism is Bigger than One Authoritarian

  by Julia Ioffe

  Liberal Russians reflect on Stalin's death 69 years later and observe parallels with Putin's approach to internal dissent. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  1/25/2022
  

  Will Putin Learn from Stalin's Mistakes over Korea?

  by Gregory Mitrovich

  Stalin's support for the North Korean invasion of the south galvanized Western opposition and ensured that the Cold War would be militarized, instead of remaining a diplomatic and economic conflict. In the long run, the Soviets lost. 

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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: The New Yorker
  11/4/2020
  

  The Disbelief and Horror of Election Night Were Captured by a Russian Poet in 1933

  by Masha Gessen

  It is believed that “Stalin’s Epigram” led to Mandelstam’s arrest, in 1934. The poet died in the Gulag in 1938. Every line is recognizable six decades later.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  4/27/2020
  

  He Found One of Stalin’s Mass Graves. Now He’s in Jail.

  Yuri Dmitriev's family believes he has been jailed on false pedophelia charges because his findings challenge a sanitized version of history favored by Russian nationalists.

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• 3/15/2020
  

  Churchill, Stalin and the Legacy of the Grand Alliance: An Interview with Professor Geoffrey Roberts

  by Aaron J. Leonard

  Geoffrey Roberts assesses the history and legacy of the wartime alliance and political relationship between Winston Churchill and Josef Stalin.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  3/5/2020
  

  The Truth About Stalin’s Prison Camps

  Vera Golubeva spent more than six years in one of Joseph Stalin’s gulag camps. Her crime? “To this day, I still don’t know,” she says.