Classical Music

Shostakovich: a composer's frightening double life in Stalin's Russia

Dmitri Shostakovich: the Soviet voice of the oppressed. Discover the lives and works of all the great composers, at classical ...
World Socialist Web Site

Victory Day in Russia: The real historical lessons for the working class

On Friday, May 9, military parades and various festive events dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Soviet Union and its allies over the Third Reich took place throughout Russia. The ...
London Review of Books

Sheila Fitzpatrick: Late Soviet Spiritualism

The Soviet Union had brought up its citizens as believers in scientific atheism, scornful of the tradition-based ...
Foreign Affairs

The Evolution of Soviet Terrorism

THE reorganization of the Soviet political police, the OGPU, and its virtual transformation into a Commissariat for Internal Affairs which does not possess the right to pronounce summary death ...
The New York Times

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. By Robert D. McFadden Roy Medvedev, the ...
Meduza

Russia coined the term ‘genocide of the Soviet people.’ Now it wants to jail deniers — a move unprecedented even in the USSR.

Lawmakers in Russia’s State Duma have approved in the first reading a bill introducing amendments to the Criminal Code that would establish criminal liability for: ...