But how many know about the terrors inflicted inside the Kolyma camps of the Russian Far East or on the Solovetsky archipelago in the White Sea for most of the twentieth century? Despite the vastness of a wicked system that ground through...
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Return from the Archipelago: Narratives of Gulag Survivors Carlton, David. Churchill and the Soviet Union Engelstein, Laura, and Stephanie Sandler, eds. Self and Story in Russian History Poe, Marshall T. “A People Born to Slavery”: Russia in Early Modern European Ethnography 1476-1748 Mark...
July in Siberia, and it's hot. So we guzzle down a cold drink at the city's classic railway station that played a major role in Russian history. Through this section passed Czarist prisoners in chains to compounds; condemned Communists on their way to the gulag; Red and White troops on...
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A People’s Tragedy: The Russian Revolution: 1891-1924 By Orlando Figes Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine By Anne Applebaum Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar By Simon Sebag Montefiore Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World’s Greatest Nuclear Disaster By Adam Higginbotha...
News of the world come muffled to these areas but ripples of political event still reach them: WWI, the Russian Revolution, the Civil War in Finland, the Russian-Finnish war and WWII. They affect their lives at various level until WWII disrupts everything. ...
The game became notorious for its Russian-roulette-type mechanic and the coveted leaderboard: how long could players last before their computers were permanently disabled? Workers with discretionary leisure income pay to be entertained, to be compensated for the boredom of their working lives. ...
In the preface to his remarkable three-volumeHistory of the Russian Revolution, Leon Trotsky, writing in 1930 about earth-shaking events in which he was a key actor, explains his view of writing history. He cites reactionary French historian Louis Madelin, who wrote that “…the historian ough...
His best known novels were based on his experiences as a prisoner and include: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962), Cancer Ward (1968), The Gulag Archipelago (1974–1978). His later works were about Russian history and identity. Graham Greene (1904–1991): a British novelist,...