Tag Archives: Stalin

We Will Bury You (2)

Posted on March 10, 2018 by leslie

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 →

Posted in QR Home | Tagged Anne Applebaum, Frank Ellis, Holodomor, Kulaks, Red Famine, Robert Conquest, Stalin, The Harvest of Sorrow, Walter Duranty | 2 Comments

The Doctors’ Plot

Posted on January 27, 2018 by leslie

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 →

Posted in Current Affairs and Comment, QR Home | Tagged Beria, Doctors' Plot, Stalin | 3 Comments

The Death of Stalin

Posted on January 11, 2018 by leslie

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 →

Posted in Film Reviews, QR Home | Tagged Khrushchev, Lavretiy Beria, Molotov, Stalin, Svetlana, The Death of Stalin, Zhukov | 1 Comment

Catalonia, on the Brink

Posted on October 12, 2017 by leslie

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 →

Posted in Current Affairs and Comment, QR Home | Tagged Catalonia, Franco, Primo de Rivera, Stalin | 9 Comments

Burnt by the Sun

Posted on November 3, 2016 by leslie

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 →

Posted in Cultural Matters, Current Affairs and Comment, QR Home | Tagged Alexander Kolchak, Burnt By The Sun, Stalin, The Admiral | 1 Comment

Selective Amnesia

Posted on August 3, 2016 by leslie

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 →

Posted in Book Reviews | Tagged Frank Ellis, Hitler, Lenin, Stalin, Volker Ullrich | 1 Comment

Titanomachia

Posted on April 7, 2016 by leslie

Titanomachia Frank Ellis reviews an updated account of an epic struggle David M. Glantz and Jonathan M. House, When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler, Revised and Expanded edition, University Press of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, 2015, Appendices, Index, … Continue reading →