The Kremlin Letters: Stalin's Wartime Correspondence with Churchill and Roosevelt By David Reynolds and Vladimir Pechatnov Yale University Press, 680pp Given the enormous number of books that have ...
When poet Osip Mandelstam was arrested by the Soviet secret police in the 1930s, he was taken to the notorious Lubyanka prison for interrogation. He drew a distinction between the guards “on the ...
After Stalin got rid of Trotsky, though Trotsky was still influencing Soviet politics through writing and publishing articles ...