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The Devil Spares Pravda
The Devil Spares Pravda The Devils’ Alliance; Hitler’s Pact with Stalin, 1939-1941, Roger Moorhouse, Basic books, New York, 2014, hb, 382pp, $29.99 US, reviewed by Leslie Jones As Roger Moorhouse observes in this compelling account, the Nazi-Soviet Non-aggression Pact of … Continue reading
Whitewashing the Great Terror
Whitewashing the Great Terror By Frank Ellis Guilt and innocence become senseless notions: “guilty” is he who stands in the way of the natural or historical process which has passed judgement over “inferior races”, over individuals “unfit to live” over … Continue reading
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Tagged Peter Whitewood, Robert Conquest, Sergei Kirov, Stalin, The Great Terror
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Vasilii Grossman’s Just Cause
Vasilii Grossman’s Just Cause Frank Ellis celebrates a defeat for censorship Green eyes cut the heart without a knife (Vasilii Grossman) I. Introduction: For a Just Cause or Stalingrad? Outside the circle of people who concern themselves with Grossman’s work … Continue reading
We Will Bury You (2)
We Will Bury You (2) Anne Applebaum, Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine (2017), reviewed by Frank Ellis [i] A destruction process is a series of administrative measures that must be aimed at a definite group.[ii] Raul Hilberg, The Destruction of … Continue reading
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Tagged Anne Applebaum, Frank Ellis, Holodomor, Kulaks, Red Famine, Robert Conquest, Stalin, The Harvest of Sorrow, Walter Duranty
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The Doctors’ Plot
The Doctors’ Plot Editorial Note: A commentary on “The Death of Stalin”, by DAVID ASHTON Screen and stage “entertainment”, such as “The Crown” or “Darkest Hour”, use either fictional reconstruction to highlight truthful themes from history, or falsify the facts … Continue reading
The Death of Stalin
The Death of Stalin A film directed by Armando Iannucci, based on the comic book Death of Stalin, by Fabien Nury and Thierry Robin, reviewed by ROBERT HENDERSON Main Cast Jeffrey Tambor as Georgy Malenkov – Deputy General Secretary Steve Buscemi … Continue reading
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Tagged Khrushchev, Lavretiy Beria, Molotov, Stalin, Svetlana, The Death of Stalin, Zhukov
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Catalonia, on the Brink
Catalonia, on the Brink Gerry Dorrian considers the roots of the current crisis Political geography tends to fracture across historical fault lines. In 2015, the University of Oxford’s DNA map of Britain revealed the continuing existence of the millennium-old Landsker … Continue reading
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Tagged Catalonia, Franco, Primo de Rivera, Stalin
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Burnt by the Sun
Burnt by the Sun Bill Hartley is on planet propaganda Russian cinema brings to mind heroic Soviet era films such as Battleship Potemkin, imbued with socialist realism and designed to get the official seal of approval and inspire the masses. Such … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Kolchak, Burnt By The Sun, Stalin, The Admiral
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Selective Amnesia
Selective Amnesia FRANK ELLIS reviews the latest biography of Hitler Volker Ullrich, Hitler: Ascent 1889-1939 (Adolf Hitler – Biographie. Band 1: Die Jahre des Aufstiegs 1889-1939, S. Fischer Verlag, 2013), translated by Jefferson Chase, The Bodley Head, London, 2016, … Continue reading
A Light, Shining in Darkness
A Light, Shining in Darkness Alexandra Popoff, Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2019, pp. ix-xi + pp. 1-326 + notes, photos, bibliography, index, ISBN 978-0-300-22278-4, reviewed by Frank Ellis I begin with … Continue reading →
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