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Science in Russia and the Soviet Union : a short history / Loren R. Graham

pt. I. The tsarist period. 1. Russian science before 1800. 2. Science in nineteenth-century Russia. 3. Russian intellectuals and Darwinism -- pt. II. Russian science and a Marxist revolution. 4. The ...
World Socialist Web Site

Jochen Hellbeck’s “World Enemy Number 1, Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, and the Fate of the Jews”

The German-American historian Jochen Hellbeck has written an important book. In clear and engaging language and with great empathy for the Soviet people, it deliberately opposes the efforts to ...
The Conversation

Back in the USSR: New high school textbooks in Russia whitewash Stalin’s terror as Putin wages war on historical memory

Hey, kids, meet Josef Stalin. New Russian high school textbooks – introduced in August 2023 on the instruction of President Vladimir Putin – attempt to whitewash Stalinist crimes and rehabilitate the ...

This Moscow Park has over 1,000 statues and a story behind each one

It sits between Park Kultury and Oktyabrskaya metro stations, but once you step in, the city noise softens into something ...
The Columbian

How the Kremlin weaponized Russian history — and has used it to justify the war in Ukraine

FILE - Moscow students dressed in the fashion of the middle of the last century and Soviet style uniform perform “Victory Waltz” as a part of Victory Day celebration in front of the historical main ...