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Was reaction to leader's death a result of love, fear – or a more sinister thing?
Tuesday 20 December 2011
Such devotion appears to be both a survival mechanism and a product of mind control
Brain illness could have affected Stalin's actions, secret diaries reveal
Friday 22 April 2011
Accounts by his inner circle give new insight into dictator's life
How to Change the World: Tales of Marx and Marxism, By Eric Hobsbawm
Sunday 20 February 2011
A career-spanning collection of essays by our most eminent Marxist historian is cause for celebration. But it has its blind spots
A Day That Shook The World: Big Three meet at Yalta
Saturday 12 February 2011
On 12 February 1945 a communiqué was issued at the Yalta Conference announcing the carve-up of soon-to-be-defeated Germany and parts of Eastern Europe.
Russia blames Polish pilot for Kaczynski air crash
Thursday 13 January 2011
Russian investigators yesterday pinned much of the blame for the plane crash which killed the Polish President last year on the chief of his air force who had been drinking and ordered the crew to land in terrible weather conditions.
Mikhail Shatrov: Playwright whose work asserted that Stalinism was a deviation from Leninism
Wednesday 25 August 2010
Mikhail Shatrov was one of the Soviet Union's pre-eminent playwrights, producing a series of historical dramas that used archival sources to portray Stalinism as a deviation from Leninism. Nevertheless, even under Stalin's successors Khrushchev and Brezhnev, several of his plays were banned.
Second Stalin statue vanishes
Monday 28 June 2010
Authorities in Georgia tore down another monument to Josef Stalin.
Dictator's home town says goodbye Stalin as statue is torn down
Saturday 26 June 2010
Georgian authorities have removed a massive statue of Joseph Stalin from the main square of his hometown, Gori, in a secret late-night operation underlining their determination to sever ties with their Soviet past.
Artists take on the new cult of Stalin
Saturday 29 May 2010
Attempts in Russian society to rehabilitate the despotic leader have provoked rebellion. Shaun Walker reports from Moscow
Picasso: Peace and Freedom, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool
Sunday 23 May 2010
Picasso was a communist party member, but he would have been locked up for his art under Stalin
Picture of the day: Uniforms in uniform
Wednesday 21 April 2010
These Russian soldiers were being put through their paces yesterday at Alabino, just outside Moscow, in preparation for the huge Victory Day parade planned for 9 May in the capital.
Katyn: painful wound that has yet to heal
Monday 12 April 2010
Could this disaster help rebuild relations with Russia, destroyed by a 1940 massacre of Poles? Shaun Walker reports
Never mind the Bolshoi
Saturday 03 April 2010
The Helikon, an opera company that breaks all the rules, is now 20 years old. Shaun Walker in Moscow celebrates its rise
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