Because the Kremlin hopes to project strength and unity, history isn’t used as much to inform as it is to inspire, with events cherry-picked to fit within a fuzzy framework of ‘Russian greatness.’
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In the 19th century, Russian intellectuals launched a search for historical evidence of their moral and military superiority. What they found drives what today some call “Russian aggression.”
On September 29 1941, Nazis murdered more than 30,000 Jews in a ravine outside Kiev. Dmitri Shostakovich’s 13th Symphony, Babi Yar, is a damning critique of the Soviet Union’s lack of recognition of the massacre, and a condemnation of Stalinism.
The recently translated letters of Latvian poet and journalist Arsenii Formakov depict everyday life – and suffering – in the Gulag.
How is Vladimir Putin - for whom uprisings are anathema - treating this year’s centenary of the Russian revolution?
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Postdoctoral Associate in History
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Hansen Professor in History, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor in International Politics, University of Southampton
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Professor of Russian Studies, Tufts University
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Assistant Professor in Economics, University of California, Merced
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Professor of Political Economy, University of Sydney
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Professor of Russian History, American University
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Lecturer on Government and Assistant Director of Undergraduate Studies, Harvard University
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Associate Professor of History, College of the Holy Cross