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How Stalin Forced the USSR Into the Modern Age

This video examines the First Soviet Five-Year Plan, launched in 1928 under Joseph Stalin to transform the USSR from a rural society into an industrial power. We explore how rapid industrialization, ...
Meduza

70 years ago, Khrushchev broke the USSR’s silence on Stalinism. Meduza explores what the ‘Secret Speech’ revealed about Soviet terror — and what it left unsaid.

On February 25, 1956, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev delivered what would become known as the “Secret Speech.” This ...
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How the USSR Prepared for War | Stalin’s Army and Industry

In this Kings and Generals prelude to the Eastern Front series, we examine how the Soviet Union built its military strength before WWII. Starting with Lenin’s early industrial ambitions and moving ...
The Conversation

Stalin’s postwar terror targeted Soviet Jews – in the name of ‘anti‑cosmopolitanism’

I have in the past received funding from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, the National Council for Eurasian and East European Research, the ACLS, and the National Endowment for the ...