repression

Yuri Dmitriev: Historian of Stalin’s Gulag, Victim of Putin’s Repression

Amid condemnation of the poisoning of Alexei Navalny, much less attention is being paid to the case of Yuri Dmitriev, a tenacious researcher and activist who campaigned to create a memorial to the victims of Stalinist terror in Karelia, a province in Russia’s far northwest, bordering Finland.

The Hidden Faces of Apartheid (Review)

A new book documents the way that the South African security forces targeted percevied opponents of apartheid for extrajudicial killing.