During the Soviet era, the Holocaust was concealed behind the phrase "peaceful Soviet citizens" to erase the identity of the victims. At the same time, Jews were turned into both an internal and an ...
"Everyone was equal," the kerchiefed babushka of Eli from Russia — a YouTuber who documents everyday life and regional ...
Every year on January 27, the world commemorates the victims of the Holocaust. In the Soviet Union, the tragedy of the Jews was not officially recognized, even though people were aware of it. For a ...
With great empathy for the Soviet people, the German-American historian Jochen Hellbeck deliberately opposes the efforts to ...
He is not the first to use this approach. American historian Steve Kotkin, in his ground-breaking 1995 book, Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as a Civilisation, depicted the Stalin years as a distinct ...