Sergei Furgal and Authoritarian Politics
August 21, 2020
Yoram Gorlizki and Oleg Khlevniuk— Over the last few weeks Russia has been rocked by demonstrations in a number of regions. One of the key points of contention has been… READ MORE
Tag: Soviet Union
Vasily Grossman’s Life and Fate
August 12, 2020
Alexandra Popoff— Vasily Grossman began Life and Fate, a powerful anti-totalitarian novel, when Stalin was still alive. Back then he had no prospect of publication. But after the dictator’s death,… READ MORE
The Trial of László Rajk
July 27, 2020
Molly Pucci— News of the trial of the former Hungarian Politburo member László Rajk, staged as a show trial in Budapest between 16 and 24 September 1949, traveled quickly across… READ MORE
Late Stalinism and the Soviet Nation
July 24, 2020
Evgeny Dobrenko— In Russia everything changes over ten years and nothing changes over two hundred years. These words, attributed to Petr Stolypin, were borne out, it seems, by all of… READ MORE
The New Biography of a Dictator
October 16, 2017
Oleg V. Khlevniuk; Translated by Nora Seligman Favorov— Over his seventy-four-year life, the Soviet dictator fought through a stormy historical landscape to become an important factor in events not only… READ MORE
Notes from the Gulag
April 28, 2017
The following two poems are written by Arsenii Formakov, a Latvian Russian poet, novelist, and journalist, during two terms in Soviet labor camps, 1940 to 1947 in Kraslag and 1949… READ MORE
What the Soviet Story Teaches Us about Sincerity
March 7, 2017
Ellen Rutten— Concerns about sincere expression matter hard today. Social media and e-services are transforming the meaning of trust – in both bad ways (online frauds, hacker interventions) and good (when that… READ MORE
Unveiling a Bribery Culture in the Soviet Union
December 21, 2016
James Heinzen— I first became fascinated with the social and cultural dimensions of everyday bribery in the Soviet Union when I was robbed in Moscow in 1992, just after the collapse… READ MORE
Angry Birds: Russian Censorship of the Arts
August 19, 2014
Janice Ross— “Ballerinas dance anti-Putin Swan Lake in Odessa.” The headline sounds like a set-up for a sketch comedy routine but it was deadly earnest. This past May, four Ukranian… READ MORE
Leading specialist lauds Foxbats over Dimona
February 25, 2008
Writing for the Middle East Journal, Mark N. Katz favorably reviewed Foxbats over Dimona: The Soviets’ Nuclear Gamble in the Six-Day War by Isabella Ginor and Gideon Remez. Professor Katz,… READ MORE
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