Stalin-era city names to be used in occupied Donetsk, Luhansk as part of “great victory” cult
“Voroshilovgrad” and “Stalino” On 16 April, Leonid Pasechnik, head of the Russian occupation administration of Luhansk, signed a…
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Putin restores the GULAG by legalizing slave labor of convicts
Given all the changes Vladimir Putin is making in these days in the Russian constitutional order, ones that…
‘Any effort to establish a dictatorship in Russia will end with a Stalinist one,’ Ikhlov says
The recent arrests of Russian government officials Abyzov and Ishayev like the earlier ones of Belykh, Ulyukayev and…
Kremlin readying a return to totalitarianism, Ponomaryov and Ikhlov say
All too often, Lev Ponomaryev and Yevgeny Ikhlov warn in a new commentary, observers focus on one or…
A new GULAG is emerging just as Stalin’s did slowly and insidiously, Gudkov warns
A “new GULAG” is emerging in Russia “right before our eyes,” opposition politician Gennady Gudkov says. For the…
Moscow secretly destroyed GULAG victims records in 2014
Roman Romanov, the director of the GULAG History Museum in Moscow, says that one of his researchers, Sergey…
Putin views Russians as ‘divided people,’ thus threatening all Russia’s neighbors, German historian says
A core element of Vladimir Putin’s worldview is that the Russians are “a divided people,” German historian Wilfried…
Putin thinks he’s winning and is expanding his Stalinist attack on West, Pavlova says
Many in the West following the decision of more than 20 countries to expel Russian diplomats to show…
Six characteristics define today’s Stalinists and explain their large influence, Pavlova says
“Stalinist,” like many epithets, is not so much an explanation as something that needs to be explained, US-based…
Kremlin-promoted, mythologized Russian past opens the way to a return to Stalinism
Many expected that with the passage of time, new generations of Russians would reject the worst aspects of…
Putin feels a kinship with Stalin and Ivan the Terrible, Eidman says
Vladimir Putin “defends Ivan the Terrible and Stalin ‘from excessive demonization’ because unconsciously he feels himself” to share…
‘The fish is rotting from the head’ for the second time in Russian history, Eidman says
“A fish begins to rot from the head,” Russians say, “and society descends into insanity following its dictator.…
‘Stalin’s second coming will require victims,’ Moscow paper says
Stalin is enjoying a rebirth in the Russian Federation, one that enjoys the support of the population, according…
Like his ‘hybrid wars,’ Putin’s ‘hybrid repressions’ are all too real, Tuomi says
Some in Russia and in the West appear to think that if one inserts the world “hybrid” in…
Talk about ‘hybrid’ regime obscures Putin’s creation of a ‘neo-Stalinist state,’ Pavlova says
Talk the supposedly “hybrid” nature of the Russian state now with its insistence that everyone avoid comparing it…
Stalinist times are returning in Russian-occupied Crimea, Poroshenko says
The incarceration of Ilmi Umerov, one of the leaders of the Crimean Tatar movement, in a psychiatric hospital…
Stalin-era sacralization of state why Russians overwhelmingly back Putin, Siberian scholar says
The Soviet substitution in the 1930s of the state as the idol of the crowd for religious faith…
Victor Serge again triumphs over Arthur Koestler
Two images of Stalin’s Great Terror have long competed in the West and even in some former communist…
Sacrificing Crimea and Donbas to Russia – no solution for Ukraine or the world
Many people, horrified by the actions of pro-Moscow forces in Crimea and the Donbas or unwilling to continue…
Moscow closed GULAG museum because it doesn’t want a ‘territory of freedom’
Sergey Kovalev, a human rights activist who was once an inmate in the Perm camp memorialized by the…