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Joseph Stalin and the birth of a totalitarian state

By tracing Joseph Stalin’s path to power, this article highlights the warning signs of authoritarianism and the conditions ...
National Review

Stalin’s Daughter, Her Own Woman

An Obama Judge’s Absurd Reasoning for Restoring Funding to the American Academy of Pediatrics The Ultimate Karen Why China’s Interest in iRobot Deserves Scrutiny Americans Are Going Where No Man Has ...
The American Conservative

The Second World War Was Not Stalin’s War

Stalin’s War: A New History of WWII, by Sean McMeekin (Basic Books: 2021), 864 pages. The peoples of the Russian Federation—despite the imperishable cynicism that so many express on matters ...
The New Yorker

How Stalin Became Stalinist

Is there any point to another Stalin biography? Before the opening of the old Soviet archives, three decades ago, the best historians mastered the limited available sources and proceeded to fill in ...
The Tufts Daily

'Death of Stalin' provides commentary on authoritarianism, cheap laughs, but not much else

"The Death of Stalin" (2017), Armando Iannucci’s second feature film, portrays the struggle for power following Stalin’s death over control of the USSR between Lavrentiy Beria (Simon Russell Beale), ...
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Why Stalin’s popularity doesn’t have to be as terrifying as it seems

This week, yet another poll confirmed Joseph Stalin’s unwavering hold on the popular imagination of Russians. Surveys have documented steadily rising admiration for the Soviet leader in the last ...