Witnessing Stalin’s Justice
Kelly J. Evans, Jeanie M. Welch The United States and the Moscow Show Trials Witnessing Stalin’s Justice brings together contemporary American reactions to the Moscow show trials and analyses them to understand their impact on US-Soviet relations. Held between 1936 and 1938, the show trials made false charges such as espionage, sabotage and counter-revolutionary plotting at the behest of the exiled Leon Trotsky to condemn the...
Under Stalin’s Shadow
Nikos Marantzidis Under Stalin’s Shadow examines the history of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) from 1918 to 1956, showing how closely national Communism was related to international developments. The history of the KKE reveals the role of Moscow in the various Communist parties of Southeastern Europe, as Nikos Marantzidis shows that Communism’s international institutions (Moscow Center, Comintern, Balkan Communist...
The Value of “Things” in Stalin’s USSR: Thieves, their Motives and their Repression
“Socialist property” after World War II and consequences in the late-Stalin political culture and criminal system DATE: 09 MAY 2023 from 17:30 to 19:00 EVENT LOCATION: Institute of Advanced Studies – Sala Rossa, Palazzo Marchesini, Via Marsala, 26 – Bologna – In presence and online event TYPE: Lectures “Socialist property” existed as a juridical category in the Soviet Union. Under Stalin, a new property...
Stalin’s Economic Advisors
Kyung Deok Roh Soviet foreign policy in the Stalin era is commonly assumed to have been a direct product of either Marxist ideology or the leader’s whims. Both assumptions, however, oversimplify the complex and subtle factors involved in its creation and implementation. Kyung-Deok Roh provides an alternative, more nuanced, explanation and demonstrates the key role played by Stalin’s economic advisors. The so-called...
Stalin’s Italian Prisoners of War
Maria Teresa Giusti Stalin’s Italian Prisoners of War (CEU Press, Budapest, 2020, forthcoming) This book reconstructs the fate of Italian prisoners of war captured by the Red Army between August 1941 and the winter of 1942/43. Of 230,000 Italians left on the Eastern front almost 100,000 did not come back home. Testimonies and memoirs from surviving veterans complement the author’s intensive work in Russian and Italian archives. The...
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