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A History of 20th-Century Russia, Warts and All
Moscow :: Russia | 1 day ago
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Retailing at the rough equivalent of $20 a volume and titled “History of Russia. XX Century,” the books try to rise above ideologically charged clashes over Russia’s historical memory. They are critical both of czarist and Communist Russia, and incorporate...
Tags: Russian Orthodox Church, United Russia, russians orthodox, Mr. Zubov, Poland, Stalin, Russia, Moscow, Zubov, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Joseph Stalin, Vladimir Putin, Heads of government of the Soviet Union, Marxist theorists, German Russians
Movie Review: ‘The Gift to Stalin’—Russian Film Week
Almaty :: Kazakhstan | 5 days ago
Credibility One of the scarier aspects of Stalin’s reign of terror was the effectiveness of his cult of personality. His image was omnipresent, investing his iron-fisted rule with a secular idolatry, which brooked no criticism. In fact, reverence for his personality...
Tags: Stalin, Sashka, Muslim Kasym, Russian Film Week, Kazakhstan, Almaty, Communism, Old Bolsheviks, The Stalin, Stalinism, Entertainment Culture, Joseph Stalin, The Gift to Stalin, films
Vitaly Ginzburg: Nobel Prize-winning physicist who helped the Soviet Union develop the hydrogen bomb
Moscow :: Russia | 12 days ago
Credibility Vitaly Ginzburg, a Jewish Nobel Prize-winning Russian physicist, who was "saved" by the hydrogen bomb, died in a Moscow hospital on 8 November aged 93. He was widely regarded as one of the fathers of the Soviet H-bomb. Ginzburg's scientific career was...
Tags: Vitaly Ginzburg, Avgusta Vildauer-Ginzburg, Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg, Lazar Ginzburg, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow State University, Stalin, Lebedev Physical Institute, Tsarist Russia, hydrogen bomb, Russia, Moscow, Superconductivity, Ginsberg, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Nobel laureates in Physics, Theoretical physicists, Soviet nuclear program
Book review: The Guardian — the nhistory of South Africa's extraordinary anti-apartheid newspaper
James Zug. The Guardian: The History of South Africa’s Extraordinary Anti-Apartheid Newspaper. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press; Pretoria: UNISA Press, 2007The Guardian is part of the anti-apartheid folk lore of South Africa, as a polemical...
Tags: Zug, apartheid, Guardian, Clarion, New Age, Bunting, Communist, Comintern, black republic, Nzimande, Mantashe, Stalin
Conservatives are the True Party of the People
There is a lot of talk out there about the Conservatives being too vocal now that Barack Obama is our President. I couldn't agree more. What's even more true is that in addition to the vocal outrage at our liberal President's uncontrolled spending –...
Tags: conservatives, obama, spending, fiscally irresponsible, congress, republicans, progressives, democrats, bush, chavez, stalin, ussr, taxes, minorities, glass steagall, community reinvestment, affirmative action, clinton, carter
Celebrity custody battles highlight faults in family law
Lon :: Burkina Faso | about 1 month ago
Credibility Yana became known not only as the producer of Russia’s first ever Eurovision winner but also as a mother who climbed over a three-meter high fence to see her kids as her ex-husband had denied her access to them.
Tags: Russia, death penalty, stalin era, Stalin
Why South Africa needs to debate trade union federation's resolutions
Less than a week after the national congress of South Africa’s largest trade union federation, Cosatu, ended on September 24, a national radio debate was organised to discuss the resolutions of this gathering. But it was cancelled at the last...
Tags: trade unions, federation, communist, ANC, philosophy, politics, Cosatu, tripartite alliance, GEAR, Zuma, socialism, Marx, Lenin, Marxism-Leninism, Stalin, Stalinism
Stalin grandson in court fight to clear dictator's name
Moscow :: Russia | 2 months ago
Credibility The former Soviet leader is now enjoying a popular revival in Russia. Photograph: Arpad Hazafia/AP Sitting in his front room at home in Moscow, surrounded by shelves of books on 20th-century history, Leonid Zhura recounts how life was better under Stalin....
Stalin “returns” to Moscow
Moscow :: Russia | 2 months ago
Credibility Yes, after almost half a century, his spirit has made a return to the Moscow metro in the form of a giant Soviet-era decoration that lavishes fawning praise on the late dictator. The decoration is a huge gilt-edged slogan that takes pride of place beneath...
USSR PLANS TO INVADE UK
Soviet Union wanted to invade Manchester, United Kingdom in 1974 during the peak of the cold war. A map found by the University of Manchester show,former Communist country wanted to enter into the city to take control of the nuclear site and Strangeways...
Tags: ussr, manchester, communism, lenin, stalin, invade Manchester, The plans were based on publicly-available Ordinance Survey maps, satellite images and the work of secret agents, " the Universitys Chris Perkins is quoted as saying by the international news media.
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