Vera Vasilieva: A letter from Yury Dmitriev
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Aleksandr Cherkasov: No one could have imagined ‘37 coming in the guise of ‘41
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Aleksandr Podrabinek: The Tradition of Special Operations
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Rights in Russia interview – with Andrea Gullotta, an expert on the history of the Gulag
Mary Page talks with Andrea Gullotta, lecturer in Russian at the University of Glasgow. Andrea is an expert on the history of the Gulag and president of Memorial Italia (http://www.memorialitalia.it/)…
Aleksandr Tsipko: ‘Russians are tired of empire.’ On why the Soviet Union disappeared
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Rights in Russia interview – with Benjamin Nathans, Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania
Mary Page talks with Benjamin Nathans, the Alan Charles Kors Associate Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. Professor Nathans teaches and writes about Imperial Russia and the Soviet…
Lev Shlosberg: The Unrepentant State
28 October 2021 By Lev Shlosberg Source: Website of Lev Shlosberg On 30 October, the victims of political repression are remembered across Russia. Millions of people, whose names will most…
Leonid Nikitinsky: Whose children will answer for whose fathers?
27 October 2021 by Leonid Nikitinsky, columnist for Novaya Gazeta, member of the Presidential Human Rights Council and laureate of the Moscow Helsinki Group Prize Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original…
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Teresa Cherfas reviews ‘The Scent of Empires: Chanel No. 5 and Red Moscow’ by Karl Schlögel [translated from the German by Jessica Spengler]
22 September 2021 By Teresa Cherfas Teresa Cherfas reviews The Scent of Empires: Chanel No. 5 and Red Moscow by Karl Schlögel, translated from the German by Jessica Spengler. Hardback 220pp…
Martin Dewhirst reviews ‘The Spring Victory: Stalin’s Glossed Over Crime’ by Mark Solonin
7 September 2021 By Martin Dewhirst Mark Solonin, The Spring Victory: Stalin’s Glossed Over Crime, translated from the Russian by David Loutit. Independently Published, 2021, 121 pp., £6.50. ISBN 9798519589222. Mark…