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Stalin's great purge | The great terror (1932-1940)

The Great Purge was a period in the history of the Soviet Union where Stalin eliminated the majority of the "Old Bolsheviks" ...
LAist

Was Stalin The Greatest Russian In History?

This story is free to read because readers choose to support LAist. If you find value in independent local reporting, make a donation to power our newsroom today. Russians have the chance to pick the ...
Proto Thema

Stalin, the inhuman conditions of the Gulags and the incredible incident in the refugee Community of Kostas Loules in Florika (photos)

According to Golfo Alexopoulos and new evidence, the essential purpose of the Gulags was violent human exploitation. The ...
Wall Street Journal

‘Stalin’s Library’ Review: The Soviet Union’s Red Leader Was a Red Reader

Edward Gibbon sits proudly upon my bookshelf. A set of volumes that I own, neatly stacked, comprises his “History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.” What do you make of me because it is ...
The Washington Post

He spent years uncovering the Stalin-era execution of his great-grandfather. Lawsuits seek to bury the evidence.

Stepan Karagodin, center, was a prosperous peasant farmer and village leader who resisted the Bolsheviks after the Russian Revolution. His great-grandson Denis Karagodin has spent years piecing ...
The New Criterion

Stalin: his own avatar

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Stalin interrogated Sholokhov about ideologically problematic passages but agreed to the book’s publication on ...