We are approaching one of the horrible milestones in human history — the birth of the Gulag a century ago. Sometime during the autumn of 1922, Soviet officials decided to establish a system of forced ...
It is also not to say that there isn't this inefficiency waste and other problems associated with a planned economy, but, there is something successful and captivating about the Soviet assimilation of ...
Josef Stalin, one of the most powerful and brutal leaders in history, left a legacy of death, destruction, and domination. In this Forgotten History episode, we explore the rise and fall of Stalin, ...
MOSCOW/GORI, Georgia, March 3 (Reuters) - On the eve of the 70th anniversary of Josef Stalin's death, attitudes to the Soviet Union's wartime leader remain mixed in the nations he once ruled with an ...
Who is the greatest Russian of all time? In the unlikely event that you answered “Stalin”, you would be in good company. One of the 20th century’s most horrific dictators has just come third in an ...
“Winterkill” by Marsha Skrypuch is historical fiction, but the Holodomor, or the Ukrainian Famine, is fact. In the early 1920s, Dictator Joseph Stalin conceived of a plan to initiate rapid ...
Two MLAs rose to acknowledge upcoming Holodomor Memorial Day, which marks the horror Ukrainians suffered at the hands of the Soviet regime under Stalin. In 1932-33 untold millions died through what ...
Q. So it was back then that our gigantism began? A. Yes. But in this instance we followed Western examples and tried to predict tendencies. Q. Do you know the history of Gorky's plane, with its radio ...