From the Stalinist SED to the xenophobic BSW: The political evolution of Sahra Wagenknecht
The Alliance Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW) is not an alternative to the established parties, but rather an attempt to erect new ...
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The Complex Legacy of George Orwell
While most of us know George Orwell as an authoritative critic of totalitarianism, few people know he was a committed ...
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Moscow, the Fourth Rome: Stalinism, Cosmopolitanism, and the Evolution of Soviet Culture, 1931–1941
‘Two Romes have fallen, Moscow is the third, and there will be no fourth!’ The title of Katerina Clark’s cultural history of the Soviet 1930s is taken from the resonant prophecy of the ...
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Did Stalin eliminate the last Templars in Russia?
On 11th September 1930, members of an elusive secret society were arrested by Joseph Stalin's secret police. Could these have been the last of the Russian Templars? Some historians argue this was ...