The Kremlin Letters
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The Kremlin Letters

David Reynolds, Vladimir Pechtnov The Kremlin Letters: Stalin’s Wartime Correspondence with Churchill and Roosevelt (Yale University Press, 2018). Stalin exchanged more than six hundred messages with Allied leaders Churchill and Roosevelt during the Second World War. In this riveting volume—the fruit of a unique British-Russian scholarly collaboration—the messages are published and also analyzed within their historical context....

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Les enfants de Staline. La guerre des partisans soviétiques (Paris: Seuil, 2018)
Apr26

Les enfants de Staline. La guerre des partisans soviétiques (Paris: Seuil, 2018)

Masha Verovic Au moins 500 000 combattants, autant de morts, civils dans leur écrasante majorité, plus de 5 000 villages biélorusses incendiés, dont plus de 600 entièrement détruits avec toute leur population : derrière ces chiffres s’esquisse la tragédie du plus puissant mouvement de résistance armée à l’occupation nazie en Europe. Ce livre rend leur voix aux partisans soviétiques, combattants aguerris menant une guerre impitoyable,...

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Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941
Apr08

Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941

Stephen Kotkin In 1941, history’s largest, most horrific war ever broke out, between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany.  Some 55 million people were killed worldwide in WWII, half in the Soviet Union.  Who was Joseph Stalin?  Who was Adolf Hitler?  Why did they clash?  This lecture, based upon a book of the same name, uses a vast array of once secret documents to trace the rise of Soviet Communism and its deadly rivalry with Nazism. ...

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The Communist Century: New Studies in Revolution, Resistance and Radicalism
Feb03

The Communist Century: New Studies in Revolution, Resistance and Radicalism

February 9, 2018 -9:00am to 5:30pm Stanford Alumni Center, Fisher Conference Room (Keynote on Thursday, February 8) Free and open to the public Speaker: Anna Grzymala-Busse David Holloway Norman Naimark Benjamin Nathans Amir Weiner Steven Zipperstein Location: Stanford Alumni Center, Fisher Conference Room, 326 Galvez St. February 8 at 6:00 PM: Keynote Address From Lenin to Putin: Biography as Window on Soviet/Russian Politics Keynote...

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Moscow 1956 The Silenced Spring
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Moscow 1956 The Silenced Spring

Kathleen E. Smith Joseph Stalin had been dead for three years when his successor, Nikita Khrushchev, stunned a closed gathering of Communist officials with a litany of his predecessor’s abuses. Meant to clear the way for reform from above, Khrushchev’s “Secret Speech” of February 25, 1956, shattered the myth of Stalin’s infallibility. In a bid to rejuvenate the Party, Khrushchev had his report read out loud to members across the...

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