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James Harris, The Conversation

What Stalin’s Great Terror can tell us about Russia today

In the West, the public perception of Stalin and the Terror lingers from the period immediately after his death in 1953. It shouldn't.

James Harris, The Conversation
· Jul 30, 2016 · 11:30 pm
The history behind Ukraine’s Eurovision song about Stalin’s deportation of Crimean Tartars

Charged with collaboration with the Nazis, in 1944, 240,000 Crimean Tartars were deported to Soviet Central Asia.

James Harris, The Conversation
· Mar 01, 2016 · 11:30 pm