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Prominent Soviet-era dissident Roy Medvedev dies at 100

A prominent critic of Stalins policies and Soviet- era political analyst and author Roy Medvedev died on Friday at the age of 100, Russias state media reported. Medvedev, a critic of Marxism practiced ...

Roy Medvedev, Soviet Era Historian and Dissident, Is Dead at 100

His score of books and hundreds of essays documented Stalinist executions, Communist repressions and censorship, and the transition to post-Soviet Russia.
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Never forget the victims of communist tyranny

Everyone seems to agree with the idea of learning from history, but few seem to actually do so. Today, the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation marks Victims of Communism Memorial Day. The ...

Exit Stalin: The Soviet Union as a Civilization – Accessible history of a new society

He is not the first to use this approach. American historian Steve Kotkin, in his ground-breaking 1995 book, Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as a Civilisation, depicted the Stalin years as a distinct ...