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Joseph Stalin

vignetteThe-Master-and-Margarita | Photo: Mikhail Bulgakov; public domain; Illustration: The Master and Margarita (cover detail); Harper & Row

Free Speech

How Stalin Toyed With Mikhail Bulgakov

The author of The Master and Margarita faced a bewildering mixture of rewards and censorship.

Jesse Walker | 8.20.2022 6:00 AM

culture1 | Photo: The Book of Tasty and Healthy Food

Communism

Communism Destroyed Russian Cooking

Soviet rule promised abundance. Instead it brought misery and starvation.

Liz Wolfe | 11.14.2021 6:00 AM

matt1 | Photo: Early 1990s Prague was a hotbed of anti-communist agitation, avant-garde art hijinx, and just seeing how much you could get away with. David Černý/Reuters

Soviet Union

The Anarchic Interlude

In 1990s Prague, wonderful things happened in the chaotic space between the end of communism and the rise of its replacement.

Matt Welch | 11.13.2021 6:00 AM

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Television

The Media's Role in Concealing Stalin's Evils Exposed in Mr. Jones

Walter Duranty and The New York Times have blood on their hands in this historical re-enactment.

Glenn Garvin | 6.27.2020 7:00 AM

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Communism

The 80th Anniversary of the Nazi-Soviet Pact

Today is the anniversary of perhaps the most awful international agreement in all of world history.

Ilya Somin |The Volokh Conspiracy | 8.23.2019 10:15 AM

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Friday A/V Club

Henry Hazlitt Meets Peter Kropotkin's Daughter

Friday A/V Club: A little chat about Stalin

Jesse Walker | 1.18.2019 10:40 AM

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Brickbats

Brickbat: Forget About It

Charles Oliver | 10.25.2018 4:00 AM

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Movies

The Death of Stalin Director Armando Iannucci on Free Minds Under Soviet Rule

Under Stalin, people could be killed for carrying joke books about him. They did it anyway.

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 3.16.2018 9:15 AM

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Brickbats

Brickbat: Russian Purge

Charles Oliver | 12.11.2017 4:00 AM

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Russian Revolution

The Insatiable Utopia

The Soviet elite who built a "dictatorship of the proletariat" and paid with their lives

Matthew Harwood | 10.29.2017 6:00 AM

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Book Reviews

Inside Stalin's Head

A biography offers fresh insights on one of history's bloodiest dictators.

Norman Naimark | 1.17.2015 12:00 PM

Communism

Communist Tract of the Day

Jesse Walker | 2.11.2011 11:01 PM

History

Made It, Ma! Top of the World!

Jesse Walker | 5.8.2007 10:05 AM

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