| 单词 | Stalin |
| 例句 | Why would Stalin make a deal with the devil? Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Now that the war was over, Stalin himself refused to allow women to continue in military service in the air force. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z “Glad to hear it,” Stalin said through an interpreter. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s possible she even made the suggestion to Stalin herself. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z It had taken Joseph Stalin’s physicists just four years to reach nuclear parity with the United States—about the time frame predicted by Robert Oppenheimer. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Stalin and the Communist Party encouraged ambitious designers, daring pilots, and mechanical experts to create an industry that was exemplary throughout the world. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Stalin’s indifferent reaction could have been the product of Truman’s studied nonchalance. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Yes, Stalin admitted, thousands of Soviet towns and factories lay in ruins. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z When Fuchs’s report reached Laboratory Number 2 near Moscow, it was read eagerly by Igor Kurchatov, lead physicist of Stalin’s atomic bomb program. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Stalin had a sad clown face as airplanes hit his head. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z “If the baby doesn’t cry, the mother doesn’t know what he needs,” Stalin lectured Kurchatov. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z A much more excited Lavrenti Beria hugged and kissed Kurchatov, then ran to the phone and shouted for an immediate connection to Stalin’s home. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “When Stalin occupied Lithuania, my family fled,” I said. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Joseph Stalin, the Soviet premier, called desperately for the Americans and British to launch an invasion of German-held Western Europe. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Stalin was screaming for the bomb, and Soviet scientists still needed more information from Los Alamos—they needed final reports on how the atomic bombs had been made. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Don’t forget: the pressure to conform was a matter of life and death in Stalin’s time. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z “Why didn’t you say Churchill? Dammit, you were supposed to say Churchill or Roosevelt or Stalin!” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z It should be no surprise that now Josef Stalin was determined that his own Red Army was going to invade and capture Berlin, Hitler’s capital city in Germany. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Nevertheless, according to the Soviet Constitution of 1936, also called “Stalin’s Constitution,” Soviet women had voting rights and gender equality with men. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Gold enjoyed these talks and even felt comfortable enough to bring up his concerns about the Soviet Union, including Stalin’s treaty with Adolf Hitler. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z So Stalin’s government decided to make its own deal with Germany. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Many packed up instantly and began to move west, terrified that their village would be next to fall into the hands of Stalin's armies. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z The other two eternal world leaders are Winston Churchill and Josef Stalin. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Now Stalin and the Communist Party nailed together a haphazard structure for a country that, in principle at least, treated men and women with equal rights. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Beria was to be Stalin’s Leslie Groves—but with additional powers. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The party had insisted that the appropriate conditions had not yet arrived, and waited because they were simply following the textbook definitions of Lenin and Stalin. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Five centuries later the wholesale reshuffling of populations became an infamous trademark of Stalin and Mao. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z If Stalin had his way, we’d be entombed in the ice and snow. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z How could Stalin simply take something that didn’t belong to him, something that a farmer and his family had worked their whole lives for? Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z And now Russia’s army was headed right for us with their allies, America and England, blowing wind into Stalin’s sail. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Stalin was a complex, confusing man who was both powerful and paranoid. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Truman also delivered a sterner warning to Stalin: The president sent a fleet of B-29 bombers to bases in England, the same type of aircraft that had dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z In fact, it was a police state ruthlessly run by Joseph Stalin, a dictator who arrested and executed his political rivals, just like Hitler. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z People were scared to bring Stalin bad news, and he was sure he couldn’t be tricked. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Stalin often managed to shrug off the blame for his actions onto his subordinates or the Communist Party itself. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Stalin’s book showed how diverse minorities could be welded into unity, and I regarded it as a most politically sensitive volume that revealed a new way of looking upon lost and beaten peoples. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “What if someone found it in the trash like I did? A wind could have blown this to the foot of Stalin,” said Papa. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z America and its Western allies, in contrast, saw Stalin's intransigence as the actions of a new Hitler, someone bent on undoing all they had fought and died for. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Just one week before Germany invaded Poland, Hitler and Stalin had signed a nonaggression pact, in which they agreed not to attack each other. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Stalin’s secretary picked up in Moscow, where it was two hours earlier. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Joseph Stalin himself could’ve been standing in the corner and I wouldn’t have cared. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z "Hiroshima has shaken the whole world," Stalin remarked. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Lenin’s death in 1924 initiated a power struggle that ended when Joseph Stalin seized power. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z In Moscow, Stalin's successor, Nikita Khrushchev, spoke with equal conviction about the advantages of communism and the Soviet system. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Through her connections in the Soviet government, she managed to get Stalin to approve her position as the commander of a new long-distance bombing regiment. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z “Stalin wants to protect himself from the West.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z America's spies had simply missed the evidence of Stalin's progress. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Here’s what’s so hard for us to understand today: The ruthless, paranoid Josef Stalin, by then the uncontested leader of the USSR, commanded a bizarre and absolute power over his people. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z He wanted to stun Stalin with the news. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Stalin may have intended to break his treaty with Hitler—but Hitler beat Stalin to the punch. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z While the United States was still reeling from the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, on December 9, 1941, under an order of Stalin, the first of Marina Raskova’s aviation regiments was created. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z If you were a young person in the Soviet Union in the 1930s, you were unable to separate your fear of Stalin and his henchmen from your genuine patriotic fervor for your Motherland. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z On September 1, 1949, Stalin taught America a hard lesson about the cost of lagging behind in the spy wars. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Like Hitler and Stalin were fighting to see who could break down a door first. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z President Truman was leaving in a few days for Potsdam, Germany, where he was going to meet with Joseph Stalin to begin talking about post-war plans. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “Stalin has a plan, my love. The Kremlin will do anything to see it through. You know that. He wants Lithuania for the Soviet Union, so he’s moving us out temporarily.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z For all Stalin’s preparation for the “future war,” he seems to have had some kind of mental block against believing that Hitler was really going to attack him. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Maybe Stalin would give his government and the Motherland a fresh start once all this was over. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z I was glad that Hitler had pushed Stalin out of Lithuania, but what was he doing there? Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z In consultation with Stimson, Truman decided to wait until the final day of the Potsdam conference and then treat Stalin to a bare-bones report. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Stalin called Churchill's speech "an appeal to war with the USSR." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z According to Yevgeniya, Stalin warned Marina, “You understand, future generations will not forgive us for sacrificing young girls.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Anna, looking back on this terrifying time in her school years, commented bitterly that “the vigilant hawks of the Stalin regime...converted the whole great country into a big concentration camp of life-term inmates.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z When Stalin died in 1953, he was succeeded by Nikita Khrushchev, who held power during the most intense time of the Cold War rivalry between the Soviet Union and the United States and their allies. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z And just to make sure Kurchatov and his team understood what was at stake, Stalin placed his head of secret police, Lavrenti Beria, in charge of the bomb project. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Berlin was the ultimate prize of the war, and Stalin wanted to get there first, before the Germans gave up the battle or the Western Allies stormed into the city themselves. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z It had been Stalin’s The National and Colonial Question that had captured my interest. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps just as important, Stalin and his compatriots found the prospect of “shattering” and “retraining” genes via shock therapy satisfying ideologically. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z I remembered Papa talking about Stalin confiscating peasants’ land, tools, and animals. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Crowded into the bunker were other top Soviet physicists, along with the head of Stalin’s secret police, Lavrenti Beria. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The bald man said Hitler broke his agreement with Stalin, because Germany invaded Russia a week after we were deported. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z The Soviet Air Force magazine Stalin’s Falcons ran a story titled "The Girl Avenger,” calling Lilya "one of the Front’s outstanding pilots.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z “Stalin had a tremendous blow up,” recalled one top official, “losing his temper, banging his fists on the table and stamping his feet.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Stalin, who led the Soviet Union until 1953, was a cruel dictator who ruled by terror. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Somehow, astonishingly, she managed to use her position of political influence to quietly help out an estimated five thousand people who might otherwise have been victims of Stalin’s purges. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z And then, barely a week later, a single rogue agent pulled a thread that threatened to unravel Stalin's carefully woven net. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Hitler’s new target was Stalingrad, a large industrial city on the Volga—and the one that bore Stalin’s name, an insult to Stalin himself. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Stalin’s psychology of terror seemed to rely on never knowing what to expect. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Stalin called on the People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs or NKVD, a military police force of spies and assassins, to root out treachery...whether it was real or possible or even fantastically impossible. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z What if other countries became allies with Stalin? Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Nobody close to Stalin dared to give this adequate attention. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z He never guessed that Stalin already knew all about the American bomb project. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Stalin had taken my home and my father. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z It’s possible Stalin ordered the murder himself, but that’s never been proved. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z “To the Soviets, there is no more Lithuania, Latvia, or Estonia. Stalin must completely get rid of us to see his vision unlittered.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z There were faces mixed in—FDR, Hitler, Stalin. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z News of the atomic bomb quickly reached Joseph Stalin, the supreme ruler of the Soviet Union, at his headquarters in the Kremlin, in Moscow's Red Square. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z More than anything else, Stalin vowed that no invader would ever threaten the motherland again. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Stalin kept watch over friends and enemies alike, listening in on their communications and stealing their closely guarded secrets. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z It was a deliberate attempt to intimidate him, Stalin believed. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z It was a large, open room with desks and metal shutters on the windows and a portrait of the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin gazing down. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Winston Churchill, equally eager to intimidate Stalin, stepped quickly to Truman. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z We don’t know how much access Marina actually had to Josef Stalin. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Heisenberg said, “I would like to know what Stalin is thinking this evening.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z As Golos's lover and his main espionage protégée, Elizabeth Bentley quickly became indispensable to Stalin's underground operation in the United States. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z It was as if someone had slipped into the Kremlin in 1950 and held Stalin at gunpoint, leaving the nation, accustomed to obeying a tyrant, utterly rudderless. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Back in his private room, Stalin told his foreign secretary, “We’ll have to have a talk with Kurchatov today about speeding up our work.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “Okay, Stalin,” I muttered as I stuffed the coupon back into my pocket. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Thanks to the persistence of this unlikely duo, Stalin's spies were finally being pushed out of the United States. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Now the Soviet Air Force became an unlucky target for Stalin’s purges, because it had been a source of pride for Mikhail Tukhachevsky. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Stalin’s government hadn’t ever encouraged outspokenness among its citizens. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Perhaps only those who endured the twentieth century’s death camps—Hitler's, Stalin’s, or Pol Pot’s—can imagine the nightmare of slavery as it existed in the nineteenth-century South. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z “I casually mentioned to Stalin that we had a new weapon of unusual destructive force,” Truman recalled. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z It might have been a strategic move by Stalin to keep a close eye on all the Soviet Union’s top aviation specialists. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Indeed, when Stalin, Molotov and a coven of other Party leaders went to the Bolshoi Theatre to see it in December 1935, the same thought occurred to them. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z In May 1949, Stalin capitulated, and the Soviet Union suspended its blockade. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z From what I’d heard, Stalin’s torture in Siberian gulags was brutal. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z America's nuclear gambit had kept Stalin in check, but the crisis in Berlin underscored the need to anticipate the USSR's next move. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z He asked Soviet leader Joseph Stalin to help, but Stalin had already sided with Hitler. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z But Stalin didn’t mention any specific role for women. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Could we be trading Stalin’s sickle for something worse? Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Again, it’s hard to know how honest individual storytellers are about their feelings for Stalin, even with themselves. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Truman was hoping to see fear on Stalin’s face. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z If the United States backed down here, in Hitler's former capital, who would trust it to stand up to Stalin anywhere else? Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Poland, and others were divided between Hitler and Stalin. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Stalin had no intention of keeping the agreement, Sam said, but the deal gave the Soviets time to build up their military strength. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z That’s why we were able to flee from Stalin into the barbed arms of Hitler. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Apparently Stalin himself greeted them with kisses when they reached the Kremlin, the palatial seat of Soviet government, and Marina and Valentina had a joyful reunion with their children. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z “If I am not mistaken, miss, you are Volksdeutsche, a Lithuanian who was allowed to repatriate into Germany. Your liberty belongs to Adolf Hitler. We can certainly hand you back over to Stalin.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Even in a clown suit, it was obviously Stalin. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z "They want to force us to accept their plans on questions affecting Europe and the world," Stalin declared to his advisers. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The flight was supported not only by the government but by Josef Stalin himself. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Stalin got his emotional support from his colleague and best friend, Sergey Kirov, the swashbuckling head of the Communist Party in Leningrad. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z So when Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, the agendas of Stalin and his composers were abruptly realigned. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Soviet Communists saw the West as their prime adversary in the battle to win the hearts and minds of oppressed people everywhere; America viewed Stalin's government as an enemy of democracy. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Many of Lenin’s modern ideals stayed in place as Josef Stalin first took over leadership of the USSR. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Before the rubble of the last war had even been cleared, Stalin feared that a new and ominous threat to Soviet security lay at Russia's doorstep. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “What do you mean? Hitler pushed Stalin out of Lithuania,” said Jonas. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Stalin was destroying the people of Poland, Ukraine, and the Baltics. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Stalin called Igor Kurchatov to his office and chewed him out for not demanding the resources he needed to move more swiftly. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The reasons for this pressure are complicated, but they begin with the leader of the USSR, Josef Stalin. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z This is what Stalin’s dreaded head of secret police, Lavrenti Beria, suspected. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Equally disturbing to Gold was the news that just days before the war started, Stalin and Hitler had signed a special pact, agreeing not to fight each other. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The Soviet Union’s head of state and a close colleague of Stalin’s, Chairman Mikhail Kalinin, gave a speech in July 1945 addressed to the “Glorious Daughters of the Soviet People.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Stalin wanted his own atomic bomb— and he wanted it quickly. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “Only persons really changed history those who changed men’s thinking about themselves. Hitler as well as Jesus, Stalin as well as Buddha . . . Hon. Elijah Muhammad. ...” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z He didn’t actually have anything to gain from another treaty with Stalin, and he was annoyed with the nitpicking negotiation. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Stalin began to evacuate the Soviet government and told foreign embassies to leave as well. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z “Because his father told him that if Stalin comes to Lithuania, we’ll all end up there.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Portraits of Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Stalin hung above the desk. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z I acquired the complete works of Marx and Engels, Lenin, Stalin, Mao Tse-tung, and others and probed into the philosophy of dialectical and historical materialism. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Not one step back: in a world at war, the fear of Stalin’s directives was a threat more terrifying than dying in battle. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z And then Stalin kept up the pressure—” But I don’t care what points I made in the interviews, it practically never got printed the way I said it. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I recalled the map I had drawn for the NKVD, and then Stalin and Hitler dividing up Europe. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z And now Stalin’s army is closing in and people are panicking. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z I wondered about the artists who painted Stalin. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Amidst this war between Hitler and Stalin, would Mother still consider me talented, or criminal? Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Stalin, not a man to pay much attention to the wind, overruled the decision. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z It took several months, but in the end Stalin liked the idea of forming aviation regiments for women. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z There’s been a lot of discussion among scholars and military experts as to why Stalin’s government allowed this to happen. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Top Soviet officials like Fitin lived in terror of Joseph Stalin. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Stalin has stolen more than land, Hannelore, he has stolen human dignity. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Stalin may have felt that Marina’s air regiments could eventually be used for publicity. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Despite his unwillingness to be considered a Marxist, he joined the staff of the leftist intellectual journal Partisan Review, which had switched its allegiance from Stalin to Trotsky. The Heavy Bear: On Delmore Schwartz 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z Twin Cities Public Television in St. Paul is at work on a documentary about Stalin. A Surge of Interest in East-Bloc Mementos 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z As Stalin twists the Children’s Case to his own political ends, the true magnetic power of “One Night in Winter” becomes clear. ‘One Night in Winter,’ by Simon Sebag Montefiore He feared that such waverers might expose him to the kind of posthumous condemnation that was heaped upon Josef Stalin after the Soviet leader’s death. In the heat of the sun 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z But Odyr, using a bright palette, has fully adapted what Orwell called “a fairy tale” satirizing Stalin — and the result is elegant and heartbreaking. The Graphic Novel Versions of Literary Classics Used to Seem Lowbrow. No More. 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z She waxes nostalgic for the days of Stalin. ‘Dear Comrades!’ Review: When the Party Line Becomes a Tightrope 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z “Russia made comedies even under Stalin,” said the author and academic Andrew Horton, who is currently teaching “Comedy Around the World” at the University of Oklahoma. A Russian ?Raymond? Proves Hard to Love 2011-04-16T02:33:01Z The reformer Alexander Yakovlev discovered, once the K.G.B. archives were opened, the casual way in which Soviet leaders under Stalin signed death warrants for hundreds of thousands of fellow citizens, before being executed themselves. In Masha Gessen’s ‘The Future Is History,’ Homo Sovieticus Rises 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z That was not the outcome Stalin and his fellow Bolsheviks wanted. Stalin, Hitler and the Temptations of Totalitarianism 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z And Tancredi finds himself agreeing with Soviet dictator Josef Stalin as he lays into the politically correct Leader whose fear of offending renders his proclamations absurd and meaningless. New book satirizes reality TV, "PC Britain," media 2011-09-29T13:09:54Z One can only imagine what Mr. Beale might have done with the character if the script had been more daring in bearding Stalin in his innermost lair. Arts & Leisure: ?Richard II,? ?Madness of King George? and ?Collaborators? in London 2012-02-12T06:00:50Z Secrets once vital were now expendable; Gaddis and others could finally learn what Stalin and other Eastern bloc leaders were thinking. Cold War historian finishes epic on George Kennan 2012-04-19T17:08:13Z In the 50s, the Cold War, Stalin and Russia were very much on people’s minds. What women want: a vivid portrait of female lives around the world 2017-10-29T04:00:00Z Second, to assume you can crawl inside my head and know what my motivation is for writing a song is arrogance reserved for the likes of Hitler and Stalin. Richard Marx hates my guts 2013-01-19T00:30:00Z “Darkest Hour” received nine nominations as well, including for outstanding British film, where it will compete with “The Death of Stalin,” “God’s Own Country,” “Lady Macbeth,” “Paddington 2” and “Three Billboards.” ‘The Shape of Water’ by Guillermo del Toro Gets 12 Bafta Nominations 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z Bevin was effective again in 1948, when Stalin attempted to cut off Berlin. How the United States Achieved World Leadership 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z Later he connected this experience to the history of his maternal grandmother’s second husband, a decorated war hero who helped run some of those camps under Stalin. Raised on Le Carré, He Wrote a Thriller Dipped in Poison 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z His wife’s parents’ appalling suffering under Stalin was one source of his burning desire for vengeance. Review: In ‘The Billion Dollar Spy,’ David E. Hoffman Recalls a Cold War Spy 2015-07-05T04:00:00Z In an extraordinary year in which he started off as Stalin and then became Timon, he is now quintessence of camp with his corn-yellow quiff and a body that coils around itself like a corkscrew. Privates on Parade; In the Republic of Happiness; The Arabian Nights – review 2012-12-16T00:06:01Z Mr. Stone makes no mention of how Shostakovich was stifled, but he doesn’t overlook Stalin’s atrocities, including the 1940 massacre of Polish officers at Katyn. Television Review: Oliver Stone’s ‘Untold’ American History, on Showtime 2012-11-11T22:45:38Z After allowing Yiddish writers and intellectuals to thrive in the Soviet Union, Stalin grew paranoid and decided that Soviet Jews posed a danger to his regime. Tragic 'Twenty-Seventh Man' brings power of the pen to bear 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z For a novelist fascinated by the slipperiness of truth, what richer ground than the Soviet Union under Stalin, where a memory might save your life, or cost another his? Music and memory 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z Ms. Sullivan fills this measured, informative biography with contrasting theories about such events, because there is no such thing as an uncomplicated death that involved Joseph Stalin. Review: ‘Stalin’s Daughter,’ by Rosemary Sullivan, Looks at a Complicated Life 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z But Bevin insisted the West could not let Stalin starve Berlin. How the United States Achieved World Leadership 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z There is quite a lot of political middle ground in between Joseph Stalin and David Cameron. The readers' room: What you thought of G2 this week . . . 2011-03-24T22:30:03Z There is animosity between the two men, but they have to overcome it to mollify the unstable Stalin. Theater Review | 'Lenin?s Embalmers': Doing a Job for Stalin, at Ensemble Studio Theater 2010-03-13T00:48:00Z Begun under Joseph Stalin as a northern alternative to the Trans-Siberian, the BAM was finished only in 1991 though it’s still being tinkered with to meet growing Asian demand for Siberian lumber, gas and oil. The Other Siberian Railroad 2012-08-10T18:28:44Z My first exposure to Glenn Beck was when I was flipping around the channels and he had Obama with a Hitler mustache next to Stalin, and I was like, what is this guy? Maggie Gyllenhaal on sexual liberation 2012-05-18T13:50:00Z The Baltic States of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia were annexed by Stalin, who deported members of the intelligentsia and their families to maintain control of the region. Dark time in Lithuania told in `Shades of Gray' 2011-04-07T19:44:14Z Incredible suffering is recounted in stories from Stalin’s concentration camps and the front lines of ethnic conflicts. Review: In ‘Secondhand Time,’ Voices From a Lost Russia 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z But Stalin is still revered by a small group of mainly elderly supporters who stress his role in the industrialization of the Soviet Union and in defeating Nazi Germany in World War Two. In Stalin's native Georgia, Soviet dictator still revered by some 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z Dalton Trumbo was too soft on dictators like Stalin and Hitler, or so said CNSnews.com in its vetting of “Trumbo,” an admiring look at that screenwriter’s battle with the Hollywood blacklist. Before the Oscars, Some Films Face the Truth Test 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z At first glance, these portraits recall the kitsch pictures of Stalin, Lenin and co from the early Komar and Melamid days, in that each makes a monument of the subject. Alexander Melamid and Yinka Shonibare 2010-05-29T23:05:00Z “By 1940, Stalin had total control over the media,” said Philps in an interview, “and total control of news from the front lines.” How Stalin’s Control of Foreign Reporters Helped Shape Russia Coverage Today 2023-07-03T04:00:00Z Rushmore: The faces of the American presidents have been replaced by Marx, Lenin, Stalin and Mao. At Bayreuth, Boos and Dropped Jaws 2013-08-01T10:42:00Z Stalin worried that Zhukov was a little too popular and banished him to the provinces. Stalin's General: The Life of Georgy Zhukov by Geoffrey Roberts – review 2013-06-28T16:40:00Z "Hitler and Stalin, at their better moments, would just barely tolerate some churches remaining open, but would not tolerate any competition with the state in education, social services, and health care," the bishop continued. Diocese clarifies bishop's remarks on Obama 2012-04-19T17:20:00Z A brilliant formalist, with a great talent for composing images as well as cutting them together, Eisenstein became progressively less interested in the ideological content of his work than its execution, as Stalin disapprovingly noted. DVD: Landmarks of Early Soviet Film Come to DVD 2011-10-09T03:23:03Z Lenin and Stalin viewed it as a place to be conquered, often through the use and abuse of those considered threats to the Soviet Union. 'The Future History of the Arctic': a balanced look 2010-03-18T20:53:00Z It features 16 stone sarcophagi quoting Stalin in German and Russian, and a towering statue of a Russian soldier holding a German child and standing on a crushed swastika. Frugal Traveler Blog: After the Thaw: Outdoor Fun in Berlin 2013-05-28T18:26:48Z “Stalin was telling him that family was a privilege just as living was a privilege, and that both were at the mercy of the Party. And the Party was Stalin.” ‘One Night in Winter,’ by Simon Sebag Montefiore Maria Baranova from Boston Ballet danced the first solo of “Pas de Quatre” charmingly, but you probably would have to have lived under Stalin to find its neo-Romanticism radical. Review: Sexy Soviet Ballet Steps, Once Delivered as Protest 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z Isn’t the eponymous physician a pill-popping, misanthropic jerk with off-putting googly eyes and bedside manner as soothing as a 3am phone call from Stalin? From The Simpsons to Nurse Jackie, the most useful (and useless) TV medics 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z But Stalin says Khan's work is vitally important. A movie star makes India confront its taboos 2012-07-23T11:43:12Z It had been sent by Nikolai Bukharin, Stalin’s revolutionary comrade and for many years the Communist Party’s intellectual figurehead, while awaiting execution after his 1938 show trial for numerous imaginary crimes. Dear “Star Wars” fans: I’m super sorry I ruined the whole thing for everybody 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z “The Icon and the Axe” is a sweeping, intricate description of Russian cultural history, spanning the pre-Romanov era through six centuries to the reign of Joseph Stalin. Condoleezza Rice on the 10 Days Still Shaking the World 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z A poll by the Russia’s Levada Centre in June found that respondents considered Stalin the “most outstanding person” in history, followed by present-day president, Vladimir Putin. Russian politicians fail to see funny side of 'Death of Stalin' 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z He told him that many of Stalin's victims nonetheless still considered themselves to be socialists, and did not trust an intellectual of the right to voice their feelings. Where's Lenin? 2010-04-16T23:08:00Z Two contrasting pictures emerge from the appraisals of Joseph Stalin written by his revolutionary colleagues and competitors. ‘Stalin,’ by Stephen Kotkin 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z Franco’s troops were backed by Hitler and Mussolini, while the losing Republican forces of the democratic Spanish government were supported by a complex and often feuding coalition that included anarchists, communists and Stalin’s Soviet Union. Review | A child’s murder sets off a sprawling tale of politics, war and family 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z Because it brought us Stalin, it brought us great repressions. Pussy Riot’s Nadya Tolokonnikova reflects on the roots of her rebellion 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z An appearance in "The Iceman Cometh" off-Broadway led to other classical parts, notably as Joseph Stalin in "The Passion of Joseph D." Peter Falk, TV?s Detective Columbo, Has Died 2011-06-24T18:17:23Z Around that same time, Silvestrov wrote a piece for violin and piano that dawdles on a mawkish melody that crumbles like a plaster statue of Stalin. Russian pianist Alexei Lubimov fittingly honors the woman who insulted Stalin to his face 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z “These are where the political prisoners lived when Stalin was building BAM,” Anatoly Stepanovich, 69, told us, nodding toward a block of long log barracks lining the road above the station. The Other Siberian Railroad 2012-08-10T18:28:44Z A diversionary scene in which she wears a bright red dress serves as an ironic reminder that during the war years Stalin relaxed somewhat his grip on the people. Music: A Tortured Russian Poet's Twisted World 2011-04-05T13:30:06Z There were plenty of socialist intellectuals ready to profess their admiration for the efficiency of Soviet industrialisation under Stalin, just as rightwing thinkers were impressed by Hitler’s capacity for state action. The 1930s were humanity's darkest, bloodiest hour. Are you paying attention? 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z It would be an exaggeration to say that the rest of “1900” — four hours or five, depending on the version — unfolds under the clashing banners of Verdi and Stalin, but only a small one. A Five-Hour Crash Course in Italian History That’s Also Great Filmmaking 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z According to the legend, Baranovsky sent Stalin a telegram saying he would rather kill himself. St. Basil's Cathedral: Russia's faulty towers? 2011-07-12T14:07:10Z It tells the stories of artists like Chagall, Kandinsky and Malevich who flourished in the years after 1917, only to be silenced in 1932 by Stalin’s brutal crackdown. Searching for signs of the Soviets in St Petersburg 2016-10-22T04:00:00Z Hitler’s likeness is taken down and replaced with Stalin’s. ‘Babi Yar: Context’ Review: Unearthing Footage of a Nazi Massacre 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z Stalin was in power, and the Soviet imperative was no longer boldly experimental but nervously populist. Salonen leads Yuja Wang, L.A. Phil through Russian turmoil 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z One concerned “Lady Macbeth,” the other “The Bright Stream,” a ballet that Stalin had seen just before the opera. The Fact and Fiction Behind Shostakovich’s ‘Lady Macbeth’ 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z For the Soviet people, the death of Stalin was a disguised blessing. Carry on up the Kremlin: how The Death of Stalin plays Russian roulette with the truth 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z Sayle – according to his new memoir, Stalin Ate My Homework – was brought up believing in the violent overthrow of capitalism and mass murder as a political tool. Alexei Sayle: How?Stalin stole my?childhood 2011-08-11T20:00:02Z So how did Hitler cling to leadership even as Stalin's forces shelled Berlin? TV listings and previews: plan your week's viewing - 26-30 November 2012-11-26T07:00:00Z Both pieces date from the dark political years of 1938-39, one written under the shadow of the war in Spain, the other framed by the most relentless period of the Stalin purges. LSO/Elder 2010-06-14T21:31:00Z A few years before his birth was the Holomodor, Stalin’s orchestrated famine, which killed nearly 4 million Ukrainians as collective punishment for their belief in cultural and political autonomy. The Life’s Work of Photography’s Great Trickster, and Ukraine’s Greatest Artist 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z When the Bolshoi danced “The Bright Stream” — and honored the artists whom Stalin had punished — it demonstrated, remarkably, how modern Russians had accepted both the grim facts and the propagandizing mythology of their Soviet past. Dance Review: Down on the Dacha, Farmers Showing Off Expressive Footwork 2011-01-23T22:45:37Z Prokofiev's bad sense of timing seemed to haunt him till the day he died, on 5 March 1953, the very same day as Stalin. The Rest is Noise festival: The Art of Fear 2013-05-08T20:42:52Z In “Journey Into the Whirlwind,” Yevgenia Ginzburg’s memoir of her time in prison, including two years of solitary confinement, during Stalin’s Great Purge, she describes imposed silence as a kind of torture. Kinds of Silence 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z It is certainly not in the style of “The Death of Stalin,” another black comedy that was denounced by the Russian authorities and banned from theaters. Russian Comedy Plays on YouTube, Not in Movie Theaters, to Avoid Censors 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z Before long, Zakrevsky is asking Shostakovich to “shake” his memory and “think a little harder,” especially when it comes to “the plot against Comrade Stalin,” of which he was “one of the chief witnesses.” Julian Barnes and the Shostakovich Wars 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z The author spent eight years in labour camps after being denounced in 1945 for criticising Stalin. Alexander Solzhenitsyn's 'last stories' will appear in English at last 2011-07-23T23:07:17Z Molotov — who, unlike many of Stalin’s associates, lived to a ripe old age — typically professed ignorance about the fates of the people whose deaths he ordained. Summer Reading: Travel Books 2011-06-03T22:09:16Z There is a Stalin pig and a Trotsky pig, but no Lenin pig. Where's Lenin? 2010-04-16T23:08:00Z But is the death of Stalin, and the murderous regime he ran, really something to ham up? Carry on up the Kremlin: how The Death of Stalin plays Russian roulette with the truth 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z Widely known for “The Great Terror,” a study of Stalin’s 1930s atrocities, this distinguished Sovietologist was equally distinguished as a poet. Review | On the 250th anniversary of Wordsworth’s birth, a celebration of verse 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z In addition, everyone was terrified all the time, right up to and including Stalin, who feared assassination at every waking minute. Martin Amis on Lenin’s Deadly Revolution 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z “Claiming that ‘An American Family’ is the mother of reality TV is like asserting that Lenin begat Stalin,” said the film historian Jeffrey Ruoff, who wrote the 2001 book “An American Family: A Televised Life.” Television: Reality-TV Originals, in Drama?s Lens 2011-04-17T04:00:04Z You wouldn’t have known it from the American broadcast, but 1944 was a highly controversial song because its subject was the deportation of Crimean Tatars from Russia at the hands of the despotic Joseph Stalin. Why the US embrace of Eurovision is good news for planet Earth 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z “Over all, relations between Russia and America are at their worst since the Stalin era,” she writes. Destinations Await in the Summer’s Best Travel Books 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z The Stalin who developed in these years could not have existed without Trotsky, and Kotkin notes that each came to define himself against the other. ‘Stalin,’ by Stephen Kotkin 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z “Over all, there are now more people under “correctional supervision” in America—more than six million—than were in the Gulag Archipelago under Stalin at its height.” Sunday Reading: America’s Incarceration Crisis 2018-11-18T05:00:00Z What happened under Stalin was horrendous, but in point of fact, Marx never really worked out a solution, it was not his doing. Tony Kushner: 'It's a crazy time' 2010-08-31T20:30:00Z What's interesting, he thinks, is that it's even possible to write fondly about supporters of Stalin. Alexei Sayle: How?Stalin stole my?childhood 2011-08-11T20:00:02Z It remains a fascinating, thrilling, bewilderingly ambiguous evocation of life in Shostakovich’s Russia, life under Stalin: a world of terror, grief, camaraderie, triumph, hope and joy, but also of false hope, false joy. Review: ‘Shostakovich Trilogy,’ Where Joy and Grief Flourish 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z For the first eight, he and Stalin, while geopolitical rivals, sometimes found common ground. Stalin, Hitler and the Temptations of Totalitarianism 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z In an atheist integrity contest, she loses to Stalin by a mustache. Five atheists who ruin it for everyone else 2012-08-04T14:01:00Z It was Stalin who toasted writers as the engineers of the human soul and ordered that their books reflect official Soviet dogma. Review | Oh, the places you’ll want to go! Two new books offer the most magical of escapes 2021-06-22T04:00:00Z A poll by the Russia’s Levada Centre in June found that respondents considered Stalin the “most outstanding person” in history, followed by present-day president, Vladimir Putin. Russian politicians fail to see funny side of 'Death of Stalin' 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z The word “laughter” in the subtitle refers to Mr. Amis’s morally perplexed realization that, while Hitler and the Holocaust are off limits, many consider it appropriate to joke about Stalin and the Soviet Union. Martin Amis, Acclaimed Author of Bleakly Comic Novels, Dies at 73 2023-05-20T04:00:00Z So Mr. Goldberg has written a book that revolves about Stalin’s final blow against the country’s remaining Jews. Review: ‘The Yid,’ Paul Goldberg’s First Novel, Taunts Stalin 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z Let us for a moment consider the Stalin versus Hitler question simply as a contest between two human beings. Martin Amis on Lenin’s Deadly Revolution 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z Shiv calls the seller “cat food Ozymandias,” asks whether her dad was “in a bidding war with Stalin and Liberace,” then suggests the grave could be a tax write-off because, “It’s technically a residence.” ‘Succession’ Season 4, Episode 9 Recap: Dearly Departed 2023-05-21T04:00:00Z Moving through cycles of tedium and terror, “The Gift to Stalin” takes its title from a national contest to find the best birthday present for that Soviet leader. | 'The Gift to Stalin': Story of a Jewish Boy 2011-03-18T06:03:01Z “Where was the Churchill of 1931,” he laments, “who had denounced Stalin’s ‘morning’s budget of death warrants’?” Is This the Best One-Volume Biography of Churchill Yet Written? 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z After Stalin’s death, he found his way back to his original compositional voice late in life and is now remembered as the father of Ukrainian contemporary music. Review: Protecting and Defending Ukraine’s Cultural Identity 2023-03-19T04:00:00Z The real ace, however, is his visceral evocation of Stalin himself. ‘One Night in Winter,’ by Simon Sebag Montefiore “Lady Bird” will eventually open in American theaters, and keep an eye out for two other festival favorites, “The Guardians” and “The Death of Stalin.” Men, Women, Cinema — No Longer the Same Old Story 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z I felt like Stalin, planning murder all day and watching Swan Lake in the evening. Killing Eve: how my psycho killer was brought to life 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z In what came to be known as the “Katyn massacre,” the thousands of remaining Polish officers and cadets were summarily executed on Stalin’s orders. Reading Proust in the Gulag 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z The two organizations battled it out for several years, all while Stalin’s government increasingly cracked down on modernist culture. When Ukrainian Music Wasn’t Under Threat, It Thrived 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z A densely packed and richly detailed tapestry of life and conditions in the period just prior to the Stalin purges, it is made with a Chekhovian sensibility and a naturalistic style. Aleksei German obituary 2013-02-26T18:17:01Z "The Norwegians have expelled him, no other country will take him, and Stalin wants him dead!" Frida: raises an eyebrow 2010-06-17T09:09:00Z Georgia is known for producing many things — conflicts, wine, Joseph Stalin – but not professional basketball players. Could this man control college basketball? 2013-03-17T21:00:00Z Set on another planet, it is an allegory about the Stalin era that might also be applied, to a certain extent, to Putin's Russia. Aleksei German obituary 2013-02-26T18:17:01Z The director’s father, Sergei Mikhalkov, who died last year, was a children’s writer and author of all three versions of the Soviet and then Russian anthem, including one in praise of Stalin. Russian Director Presents Grand Epic of World War II 2010-05-10T12:00:00Z Mr. Tao spoke eloquently about the work, which Prokofiev ostensibly composed as a birthday tribute to Stalin. Music Review: Conrad Tao at Weill Recital Hall 2012-02-29T23:01:35Z There is the iconic photograph of Stalin and the masses, in which the image of Stalin is blatantly pasted in, and the masses, less noticeably, are composed of several repeating fragments of crowd. The Photo Book That Captured How the Soviet Regime Made the Truth Disappear 2018-07-15T04:00:00Z In 1995 a brilliant exhibition at the Hayward gallery called Art and Power: Europe Under the Dictators showed the unexpectedly wide range of styles encouraged by Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin. General election 2010: Labour's strange field trip 2010-04-12T16:50:00Z Indeed, the entire studio is soon suffused with red, because a giant banner celebrating Stalin is being hoisted up the front of the building. Review: Andrzej Wajda’s Vividly Rendered Last Film, ‘Afterimage’ 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z Her half brother Yakov, with whom she was close, perished in a German P.O.W. camp after Stalin refused a prisoner exchange to save him. Book Review Podcast: 'Stalin's Daughter' 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z The kindly shade of Sigmund Freud, had he accompanied that of Stalin, might have had something to say about the novel’s hostile treatment of mothers, meditated upon by disappointed sons. ‘The Festival of Insignificance,’ by Milan Kundera 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z In the Postscript to his autobiography, Wells describes his third visit to Russia, undertaken primarily to interview Stalin, in 1934. David Lodge on HG Wells 2011-03-11T10:00:01Z The utopian ideal of the artists engaging the masses fizzled when Stalin realized that the masses weren’t responding. The Russian Avant-Garde Rising in ‘A Revolutionary Impulse’ 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z Joseph Stalin in Tsaritsin, 1918 … Victor Serge declared himself to be 'an avowed and unequivocal dissident, whom only force can silence'. Memoirs of a Revolutionary by Victor Serge – review 2012-06-05T13:05:59Z The map gives an overview of what Stalin’s gift included — a planned community centered on massive steelworks, with housing for workers, schools, parks and hospitals. A former communist neighborhood showpiece offers a history lesson in Krakow, Poland 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z Stalin was bad, but Truman was just awful. Television Review: Oliver Stone’s ‘Untold’ American History, on Showtime 2012-11-11T22:45:38Z And that only whets the appetite for the next installment, in which Stalin decides to starve Russia almost to death to bring peasants under state control. ‘Stalin: Paradoxes of Power’ by Stephen Kotkin 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z The leader now renowned as an unyielding critic of the "iron curtain" spent much of the second world war convinced of the essential good faith of Joseph Stalin. Mr Churchill's Profession: Statesman, Orator, Writer by Peter Clarke – review 2012-07-20T07:00:04Z In 1924, the year that Lenin died and Stalin started his ascent to dictatorship, the 80-year-old landscape and religious painter cut a deal with the Council of People’s Commissars, the recently formed Soviet government. Special Report: Art in Perspective: Artist's Family Home Sustains Legacy 2010-05-28T12:00:00Z Do you know who Joseph Stalin really was and what he did?' Anne Rice: 'I thought the church was flat-out immoral' 2010-10-24T19:59:00Z This means that Mr. Beale is portraying a perception of Stalin, a nightmare Mephistopheles, which makes his accomplishment as an actor the more formidable. Arts & Leisure: ?Richard II,? ?Madness of King George? and ?Collaborators? in London 2012-02-12T06:00:50Z If there’s a disturbing contradiction between those things, it is best faced directly; Penn State’s trustees can no more erase Paterno from history than Stalin could erase Trotsky. Behind the Penn State scandal: A community fails to reckon with its past 2014-01-27T12:43:00Z Ms. Munro is cutting a sizable historical swath that encompasses the gulags under Stalin through to Cold War realpolitik and the race to put the first man in space. Theater Review: At the National Theatre in London, Other People's Pain 2011-05-03T13:00:07Z This was an allegory made in the time of Stalin, who reportedly greatly favored it. Mikhailovsky Ballet's 'Flames of Paris' makes rousing West Coast debut 2014-11-29T05:00:00Z More often, however, he positions Stalin as a victim of British and American mistrust and double-dealing, a brutal tyrant forced to be his worst self because his Western allies didn’t do right by him. Television Review: Oliver Stone’s ‘Untold’ American History, on Showtime 2012-11-11T22:45:38Z And there are some top-notch portraits of Stalin — not something you see every day in a middle-grade book. A Charming, Poignant Middle-Grade Memoir of Soviet Russia 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z People loved Stalin; some died for him willingly out of idealism. Mary Gaitskill on the Relationship Between Love and Torture 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z After deliberations involving Stalin and the head of the secret police, Felix Dzerzhinsky, who had organised the funeral, it had been decided to embalm Lenin rather than bury or cremate the body. Intimations of immortality 2011-01-08T00:05:59Z The conclusion by the British historian E. H. Carr that Stalin was a product of circumstances, and not the other way around, is “utterly, eternally wrong.” ‘Stalin: Paradoxes of Power’ by Stephen Kotkin 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z But in June 1941, when Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa against Stalin's Russia, the British suddenly had a new, contentious ally. Restless – and its roots in the Cambridge spy ring 2012-12-21T22:55:09Z Early on, he wrote an ode to Stalin; later, he identified as a Maoist. Ewan MacColl, Dogmatist of British Folk, Gets a Tribute Album 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z The GTO mass physical training programme was introduced in the 1930s under Stalin. Vladimir Putin teams up with Steven Seagal to promote healthy lifestyle 2013-03-13T16:52:41Z Look for gorgeous details from the Stalin era, like rows of streetlights built in the shape of stalks of wheat, and the gilded dazzle of the Friendship of Nations Fountain. Hidden Gems of Europe 2012-10-12T20:14:25Z A new thread soon develops around a passage in Khrushchev’s memoirs during which Stalin spins a tall tale about shooting 24 partridges. Milan Kundera’s new novel feels so very French 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z He composed it in 1944, in the shadow of Stalin, and it’s pierced with notes of anxiety, and glimpses of a tilted, dark and imperiled world. Review | This dark, stunning ‘Cinderella’ has chain-smoking stepsisters and an AWOL fairy godmother 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z Had it not been so, we might be “nuancing” our way under the iron boot of Adolf Hitler or Joseph Stalin. The Meaning of War and Other Letters to the Editor 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z Its walls were built to withstand a direct hit from an aerial bomb and held enough provisions to feed Stalin and his entourage for up to five days. World Cup fans head underground to explore Stalin's bunker 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z While the Suprematists briefly flourished after the October Revolution of 1917, they faced attacks as Stalin moved to ban their work. Pushing Forward an Abstract Art Drive That Began a Century Ago 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z Stalin needs to look his enemy in the eye, we’re told, and Brana wants the world to see that Hitler was mortal and a coward. ‘Burial’ Review: Corpse Ride 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z According to the theater’s lore, Stalin was supposed to have taken in this more restrained, cerebral production, but his chauffeur took him to the Bolshoi instead, since that’s where Stalin typically heard opera. The Fact and Fiction Behind Shostakovich’s ‘Lady Macbeth’ 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z Is it “Seven Days in May” or “The Death of Stalin”? The finale in “A Face in the Crowd” or the “Layla” montage in “Goodfellas”? Perspective | Trump’s bizarre post-election behavior isn’t a tantrum or a coup. It’s fan service. 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z “You could see the statue of Stalin being toppled. We were supposed to go to the movies that day the revolution started.” A Choreographer Who Mingles the Ordinary and the Odd 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z Stuyvesant was conceived as the show’s all-purpose surrogate for Hitler, Stalin or, looking closer to home, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, whose New Deal politics Anderson detested. Music Review: In Refrains, Echoes of Political Strife 2011-01-26T23:09:51Z Only once does he really bristle, when Churchill says of Stalin in 1945, “I like that man.” Is This the Best One-Volume Biography of Churchill Yet Written? 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z In “The Death of Stalin,” fear is so overwhelming, so deeply embedded in everyday life that it distorts ordinary expression, utterances, gestures and bodies. Review: The Slapstick Horror of ‘The Death of Stalin’ 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z Like many Soviet citizens in Ukraine under Stalin’s reign, they were terribly poor and malnourished. Ilya Kabakov, Soviet-Born Artist of Immersive Installations, Dies at 89 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z Under Stalin, the paintings were suppressed, and scattered as far as Siberia. French and Russian Art on a ‘War and Peace’ Scale 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z To give just two examples: Harry Truman defied Stalin’s blockade of West Berlin and Dwight Eisenhower ignored Khrushchev’s threats toward that same city. How Generations of Russians Have Tried to Influence American Elections 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z But views of political participation by children and young people changed abruptly under Stalin. 'There are no different truths': the last years of Soviet cinema 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z They charge modernist art not only with fostering the spiritual climate for Hitler and Stalin but also with allowing popular culture to run amok and become debased. The war on culture: How conservatives and progressives joined forces to crush art 2021-12-25T05:00:00Z Even when I played Stalin, I tried to find a vulnerable point for that guy.” Film: Robert Duvall, in ?Get Low,? Still a Hollywood Darling 2010-07-23T22:27:00Z As with his previous books, notably on Stalin, Mr Sebag Montefiore, a British historical writer, has an eye for the telling detail which lifts an unfamiliar narrative. Long they ruled 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z Long before World War II, Josef Stalin orchestrated the starvation of millions of Ukrainians in the man-made famine known as the Holodomor. In Child 44, Tom Hardy Slogs Through a Stalin-Era Procedural 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z I’m not sure if this was a laugh or a cry, but we visited the Joseph Stalin Museum in his birthplace of Gori, Georgia. What a Trip: Georgian wine and the spirit of love on a vacation to the Caucasus 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z You enter Red Square through the Resurrection Gate, a pair of archways torn down during Stalin’s time but rebuilt in 1996. Moscow in the Winter, Alive and Illuminated 2011-11-25T06:01:08Z It also adds an aptly demonic charge to this adaptation of Bulgakov's famously uncategorisable novel, which includes everything from a scene in which Satan visits Stalin's Moscow to a re-creation of Pontius Pilate's Jerusalem. Avignon festival week one roundup: Complicite is masterful, Camille captivating 2012-07-19T13:16:45Z In that sense, writing “Collaborators” was much less collaborative, even though Hytner is an internationally respected director and Simon Russell Beale starred as Stalin. British writer John Hodge on theater vs. film, and ‘Trainspotting’ sequel 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z Gabrielle Cornish is assistant professor of musicology at the University of Miami’s Frost School of Music, where she researches experimental music in the Soviet Union after Stalin. When Ukrainian Music Wasn’t Under Threat, It Thrived 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z For the final scene, typically a lightly veiled paean to Stalin, the voices are eliminated entirely, replaced by an onstage brass band. Review: The Time for Prokofiev’s ‘War and Peace’ Is Now 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z The carpet bombing of German cities during World War II; the “naughty document” that handed over Romania and Bulgaria to Stalin; comparing the Labour Party to the Gestapo — the list of Churchillian controversies goes on. Is This the Best One-Volume Biography of Churchill Yet Written? 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z A brain surgeon is caught up in a real-life purge of Jewish physicians — then returned to Moscow to attend Stalin on his deathbed. Holiday Movies 2018: All Creatures Great and Small 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z Years ago, Montefiore sealed his reputation as an exceptional nonfiction writer with his riveting double biography “Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar” and its prequel, “Young Stalin.” ‘One Night in Winter,’ by Simon Sebag Montefiore Reaction to the book split along ideological lines, with leftist historians objecting to Mr. Conquest’s thesis that Stalin’s regime was a natural evolution of Leninism rather than an aberration. Robert Conquest, Historian Who Documented Soviet Horrors, Dies at 98 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z Those broadcasts, which continue as the masses shuffle past Stalin’s wreath-laden coffin, supply an abstract, rose-colored interpretation of his life amid frequent invocations of his immortality. ‘State Funeral’ Review: Saying Goodbye to Stalin 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z Gracefully poised in person, she did not shy in print from comparing the worst of contemporary American architecture to the totalitarian excesses of Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin. Ada Louise Huxtable, Architecture Critic, Dies at 91 2013-01-08T00:34:22Z “Stalin was right in saying that the pope has no divisions and cannot issue commands,” Benedict said in the 2010 book-length interview “Light of the World.” Author rattles Jewish leaders 2012-06-21T21:17:00Z “He was determined to unearth everything that Stalin had buried so deeply and so bloodily.” David King, Collector of Soviet Political Art, Dies at 73 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z Stephen Kotkin’s two volumes on Stalin, with one still to come. John Lewis Gaddis: By the Book 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z Stalin, in the early days of his regime, was interested in militarizing culture. Choir in Plane Crash Projects Russian Pride and Soft Power 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z It is inside one of the seven gothic skyscrapers Stalin built around the city. Moscow in the Winter, Alive and Illuminated 2011-11-25T06:01:08Z "Was he in a bidding war with Stalin and Liberace?" jokes Shiv. "Succession" mourns the Roy "family way" in all its tragic glory 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z Stalin doesn’t end his story until the poor man finally wets his pants. Milan Kundera’s new novel feels so very French 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z Banished to Siberia under Stalin because of her roots in hostile Germany, she died in poverty in Novosibirsk in 1978. After 26 Years, Munich Settles Case Over a Klee Looted by Nazis 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z And it’s informative too, showing us the Soviet Union in a halcyon period before Stalin’s terror, when you felt that things were still possible in a new political context. 50 documentaries you need to see 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z Over all, Mr. Conquest estimated the death toll for the entire Stalin era at no less than 20 million. Robert Conquest, Historian Who Documented Soviet Horrors, Dies at 98 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z Her father, Roman, an intellectual, was imprisoned in Siberia during Stalin’s terrible reign; her mother, Rita, is a former Yale professor. Summer Encounters 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z It appears to be newsreel footage from our historical timeline — victorious United States troops raising the flag, Franklin D. Roosevelt meeting with Joseph Stalin and Winston Churchill. Review: ‘The Man in the High Castle’ Imagines America Ruled by 2 Foreign Powers 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z Stalin had the exiled Trotsky murdered in Mexico less than three years before Orwell began work on the book. Where's Lenin? 2010-04-16T23:08:00Z “When my Ninth was performed,” Shostakovich later noted, “he was deeply offended, because there was no chorus, no soloists. ... It was just music, which Stalin didn’t understand very well.” Guest conductor Olari Elts to lead SSO Shostakovich program 2014-01-24T01:35:08Z After the Red Army conquered Berlin in May 1945, the city was under Soviet control for two months, and Stalin proposed hosting a postwar conference for the victors there. Looking Back on 16 Days That Shaped History 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z Its characters, led by the writer Benya Golden, who joins one of Stalin’s punishment battalions during World War II, are so familiar to me now. Simon Sebag Montefiore: By the Book 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z The cynical way in which Stalin had switched sides had come as no surprise to Orwell, who was by then accustomed to the dishonesty and cruelty of the Soviet regime. Where's Lenin? 2010-04-16T23:08:00Z Not lastingly duped by Stalin, the author of “To the Finland Station” was lastingly duped by Lenin and Trotsky. Martin Amis on Lenin’s Deadly Revolution 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z The most memorable exemplar of unsheathed evil is Beria, who was, in fact, Stalin’s peerlessly murderous executioner. ‘The Death of Stalin’ Review: Laughing in the Graveyard of History 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z Rather, Jack refers to images of Hitler, Stalin, Mao, and other tyrants as supremely iconic, and asserts that they, and images of them, are beautiful art. Review: Lars Von Trier’s Empty, Repugnant Provocations “The House That Jack Built” 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z They were taught the fundamentals of classical, Russian and Soviet Realist art during the waning of the cultural thaw introduced under Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev following the death of his predecessor, Joseph Stalin. Soviet Pop Art Duo Reunites for First U.S. Retrospective Since Their Breakup 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z The jury is out on whether the “mock-gulag” extras of watchtowers and barbed wire are educational or tacky and the park has earned the nickname of Stalin’s World. 10 of the best eccentric attractions in Europe: readers’ travel tips 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z Q: “The Death of Stalin” is very funny, although people get tortured and shot in it. From Selina to Stalin: The man behind ‘Veep’ talks satire and cynicism 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z In 1956, their former leader being out of vogue, lyrics mentioning Stalin were excised, and it was revised again in 1977. Blood, gore, melody 2012-08-03T14:54:00Z Later, he sensed that Stalin was not to be trusted, an insight Roosevelt never had. 'Winston's War': A different take on Winston Churchill 2010-04-28T23:49:00Z He lived only another five years, and died in March 1953 on the same day as Stalin, which meant that no flowers were available for his funeral. The Love and Wars of Lina Prokofiev by Simon Morrison – review 2013-03-30T08:59:01Z This distinction became even blurrier following Stalin’s death in 1953, which ushered in a period of relaxed social restrictions and greater cultural freedoms under Nikita Khrushchev known as “the thaw.” She’s Rising From the Depths of Soviet Music History 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z Stalin extinguished Mandelstam’s husband, I said to myself. Letters to the Editor 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z More typical is a chilling scene in which Anna supports Stalin so unflinchingly before three English academics that they think she is mad. Music: A Tortured Russian Poet's Twisted World 2011-04-05T13:30:06Z “We were surprised that the cables snapped. But eventually someone with a blow torch came around and cut off Stalin’s feet at the boots.” Stephen Vizinczey, ‘In Praise of Older Women’ Author, Dies at 88 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z Shostakovich had been denounced as "formalist", a catch-all term of imprecise meaning, and from then until Stalin's death he trod a nervous and fearful path. The Rest is Noise festival: The Art of Fear 2013-05-08T20:42:52Z The situation was far from temporary for the tens of millions who died because of Hitler, Stalin and Mao. Getting Better All the Time? 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z These testaments to Stalin personified "force with charm, the twinkling eyes with the mailed fist". Why We Build by Rowan Moore – review 2013-01-06T00:08:47Z But he picked petty fights wherever he went; and he championed the Soviet Union long after Stalin began slaughtering his people and murdering his geneticists. The Groundbreaking Scientist Who Risked All in Pursuit of His Beliefs 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z "Nobody presented this question in Germany during the days of Hitler or in Russia under Stalin," said Oz. Amos Oz makes his words count in Israel 2015-05-09T04:00:00Z According to the prominent Russian right group Memorial, Stalin ordered the deaths of at least 724,000 people, while millions died as a result of the forced labor system in Gulags, the Soviet prison system. Georgia's Stalin museum to focus on his atrocities 2012-04-09T15:19:11Z Stalin was repudiated by the Soviet Union after his death. Russian cinema defies official ban to screen Stalin satire movie 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z At one point, Shostakovich appears to be implicated, along with his musical patron, the military hero Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevksy, in a plot to assassinate Stalin. Julian Barnes and the Shostakovich Wars 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z It’s a distant heir to Korean kimchi, evolved from the traditions of Korean settlers in the Russian Far East who were deported to Central Asia under Stalin. At Cafe Dushanbe, a Chef Stays True to His Tajik Roots 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z One of the few developments in recent years, apart from a further downgrading of Lenin and Trotsky, has been a morally slight but otherwise highly significant upgrading of Stalin. Martin Amis on Lenin’s Deadly Revolution 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z When he delivered a slighter, merrier piece, less than half an hour long, some were charmed, while others — including, dangerously, officials in Stalin’s government — felt he had failed to meet the historic moment. Review: The Philharmonic’s Conductor Returns to His Perch 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z He grew up as a prolific composer but was harassed and arrested as a Jewish man, and finally left alone after Stalin’s death. Music of Remembrance ‘To Life!’ concert honors 4 musicians who survived the Holocaust 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z The preceding two hours of Child 44 are drudge work, as if to prove that visiting the Soviet Union at the exhausted end of the Stalin era is no more exciting than living there. In Child 44, Tom Hardy Slogs Through a Stalin-Era Procedural 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z She built herself up to director, brought the Mona Lisa to the Soviet Union and outlasted every leader from Stalin to Yeltsin to become the doyenne of 's art world. Doyenne of Russia's art world ousted from Pushkin Museum at 91 2013-07-01T16:29:10Z Mr. Schweizer’s treatment of Overall was striking for its historical omnivorousness: he is first seen in Napoleon’s hat and tunic and later appears as Stalin and, in the finale, as a Chaplinesque Hitler. Music Review: Oppressor?s Tale, Written in Oppression 2011-02-02T23:08:54Z This being a novel mostly about life under Stalin, there are also moments of hair-raising terror. Julian Barnes and the Shostakovich Wars 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z Further, Stalin did die around then, which is clever cover for the author to flummox reader expectations about whether the scheme will succeed. ‘The Yid’: A ragtag group of Russians team up to assassinate Stalin 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z But the Picasso who consorted with Soviet officials, who was photographed examining pictures of Stalin, who received telegrams from Fidel Castro, is only part of the story. Picasso nearly risked his reputation for Franco exhibition 2010-05-27T23:05:00Z The composer completed this hourlong symphony months after the death of Stalin. Review: With Bach as a Catalyst, Thierry Escaich’s Lavish Concerto 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z While there, he received a letter from his wife warning that Stalin was escalating attacks on experimental artists, and pleading that he defect in Berlin. Celebrating Kazimir Malevich, a pioneer in abstract art 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z He informed me that my arrogance is in league with Adolf Hitler’s and Joseph Stalin’s. Richard Marx hates my guts 2013-01-19T00:30:00Z But Stalin’s famous visage, with its bushy mustache and sweptback hair, is upstaged by the throngs of ordinary citizens who gather to bear witness and pay tribute. ‘State Funeral’ Review: Saying Goodbye to Stalin 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z Having long been retired from stand-up, he'll be making a more sedate appearance to deliver readings from his forthcoming memoir, Stalin Ate My Homework. This week's new live comedy 2010-07-09T23:06:00Z Though the opera had pleased audiences, it did not please Stalin. Julian Barnes and the Shostakovich Wars 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z It’s seen as illustrating not only the Nazi invasion of Russia and the rise of Stalin, but also, more generally, how banal repetition can lull an audience into submission. The many ways pop culture warned us about the 2016 election 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z “Stalin is a tyrant and his rule was a tyranny and this is what my books are about,” Yakhina said. Russian novel tells story of survival, love in Stalin’s camp 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z After Stalin, she championed the still forbidden Western modern music of Schoenberg and Stravinsky. Russian pianist Alexei Lubimov fittingly honors the woman who insulted Stalin to his face 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z The joke, however, is on Stalin, since he is now among "the old dead," a point Kundera makes explicit by imagining him transplanted to contemporary Paris, where he goes unrecognized. Milan Kundera's 'Festival of Insignificance' on being and smallness 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z He's waiting for a reprieve from Stalin and argues bitterly with his fellow inmates when they try to explain that it's his Jewish background and not his politics that has ensnared him in this net. Tragic 'Twenty-Seventh Man' brings power of the pen to bear 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z But it was turned into a reviled piece of music after Stalin, wanting to see what all the fuss was about, attended a performance in January 1936 in Moscow. Stalin Didn’t Like This Opera, but Audiences Still Do 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z Josef Stalin, who trained as a cleric, appealed to the nation when the Nazis invaded the Soviet Union using the biblical “brothers and sisters” and enlisted the church as an ally during the war. Portrait of a country 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z But despite all that her grandmother lived through, Yakhina said that the older woman loved and respected Stalin, something that Yakhina is still trying to grasp. Russian novel tells story of survival, love in Stalin’s camp 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z Throughout the 1930s, Hellman, like many other Americans on the left, became an outspoken apologist for Stalin, even after the scale of his crimes began to be revealed. The scandalous Lillian Hellman 2011-01-22T00:06:27Z Gorky, who believed humans were not far from becoming gods, died miserably, probably poisoned on Stalin's orders. Intimations of immortality 2011-01-08T00:05:59Z His parents, intellectuals descended from peasants, were imprisoned briefly during Stalin’s reign. Yuri Lyubimov, Experimental Stage Director, Dies at 97 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z Looking presciently to the future, he asks, "What happens when Stalin's got one? China? The shah of Iran?" 'Manhattan' an egghead's-eye view of the birth of the atomic bomb 2014-07-26T04:00:00Z The origins of Neruda’s esteem for Stalin, then, are largely understandable. Review | The messy, brilliant life of Pablo Neruda 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z Stalin is still a monster, but a far more intriguing one than I had ever suspected. John Lewis Gaddis: By the Book 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z Sullivan, a poet and the prizewinning author of books including “Stalin’s Daughter” and “Villa Air-Bel,” about a safe house in Marseille during World War II, is amply qualified to resituate readers in reality. A Strong New Lead in ‘The Betrayal of Anne Frank’ 2022-01-17T05:00:00Z In popular culture, though, the crimes of Nazi Germany have inspired countless books, movies and TV dramas, while the sins of the U.S.S.R. in Stalin’s 28-year reign of terror get little attention. In Child 44, Tom Hardy Slogs Through a Stalin-Era Procedural 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z What was their concept of a hardliner if the baseline was Josef Stalin? Q&A: Masha Gessen Sees a Bleak Future for Putin's Russia 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z The selection starts with a lineup of authoritarian monsters from the past, among them Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin. Raymond Pettibon, Wielding an Art Mightier Than the Sword 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z Once part of an ancient Armenian kingdom, Nagorno-Karabakh was made a special autonomous oblast, or administrative zone, under the authority of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic, by Stalin in the 1920s. Explorer: Off the Map in Nagorno-Karabakh, a Region in the Southern Caucasus 2012-09-21T17:31:32Z This was at a moment when capitalism was in crisis, and disillusion with the Soviet Union, and Stalin, hadn’t fully set in; the Soviet Union’s economic success made it seem like a beacon of hope. Review: Adam Hochschild’s ‘Spain in Our Hearts,’ About a Strangely Literary Conflict 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z In another he denounces the trend, seen in some Manhattan restaurants and bars, toward decorating with Soviet-era kitsch, including images of Stalin. ‘Ethics in the Real World,’ Peter Singer’s Provocative Essays 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z Deaf and mute, he spent his life in a Russian psychiatric hospital producing meticulous colored drawings, many of them self-portraits in which he posed with Stalin, Lenin and an arsenal of guns. Art Review: When Repression Was a Muse 2011-07-21T22:30:28Z The fate of “Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk” at the hands of Stalin and the obsequious officials in his circle is well known. Met’s ‘Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk’ Stars Eva-Maria Westbroek 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z Formerly Tsar Nicholas II's personal detective, Inspector Pekkala was thrown into a labour camp come the revolution, but reprieved nine years later when Stalin realised he needed his special talents after all. Thrillers – review roundup 2013-02-22T09:01:00Z He only seems to have abandoned contemporary politics in his latest, “The Death of Stalin,” an eccentric comic shocker about a strong man and his world of ashes and blood. Review: The Slapstick Horror of ‘The Death of Stalin’ 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z Gaddis countered that capitalism was just one part of a conflict that included domestic politics, Marxist ideology and the personalities of Stalin, Mao and other leaders. Cold War historian finishes epic on George Kennan 2012-04-19T17:08:13Z In all of his historical plays the problems of the Soviet system begin with Stalin. Mikhail Shatrov, Outspoken Soviet Playwright, Dies at 78 2010-05-26T15:59:00Z These works were generally commemorative, marking the successes of Lenin’s New Economic Policy or Stalin’s Five Year Plan. Machine Age Poet, Born in Revolution, Stifled Under Stalin 2011-04-10T01:03:01Z And aside from some eyebrow-raising theories about the “natural” deaths of Lenin and Stalin, she names names and identifies possible poisons. Hunting Down the Best True-Crime Tales 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z Stalin personally ordered Shostakovich to attend and, reasonably enough, he dared not refuse. Ian McEwan on Sweet Tooth – Guardian book club 2013-07-13T09:29:00Z But when Wells revisited the Soviet Union in 1934 – this time to talk with Stalin – he discovered that Moura had been in the country on at least three occasions in the past year. Intimations of immortality 2011-01-08T00:05:59Z Yet at the same time, Stam's modernist principles got him into trouble with communist regimes, who under Stalin favoured a return to the heavy and ornamental in everyday design. When is an East German plastic eggcup a piece of communist nostalgia? 2012-07-09T15:17:32Z Begun in 1935 under Soviet leader Josef Stalin, the festival is the second oldest in the world after that of Venice. Moscow film festival bids to boost Russian cinema 2010-06-18T16:55:00Z Stalin also assumed the piece would be similar in scale and approach to Beethoven’s 9th. Guest conductor Olari Elts to lead SSO Shostakovich program 2014-01-24T01:35:08Z The next year Shostakovich parodied Stalin in his Ninth Symphony, which Valery Gergiev conducted with brilliantly snarling intensity when he brought his Mariinsky Orchestra to Walt Disney Concert Hall last month. An L.A. Phil reminder that but a mile, and fate, separate Disney Hall from skid row 2017-12-10T05:00:00Z Like a seasoned standup, Khrushchev tells his wife which of his jokes made Stalin laugh, an accounting that she dutifully preserves for future reference. Review: The Slapstick Horror of ‘The Death of Stalin’ 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z His colleague refers to both the “Impossible Conversations” in Vanity Fair in the 1930s and to a magazine page featuring Stalin and Schiap as unlikely protagonists. Dream Dialogue Between Schiaparelli and Prada 2012-05-07T11:30:28Z The censorship and propaganda tolerated in the Stalin era by some of the Western journalists helped the Soviets perpetuate immense cover-ups. How Stalin’s Control of Foreign Reporters Helped Shape Russia Coverage Today 2023-07-03T04:00:00Z Stalin and Lenin were close friends, judging from this photograph. The fake photographs that predate Photoshop 2012-08-29T08:44:53Z Q: “Stalin” isn’t just about Stalin, is it? From Selina to Stalin: The man behind ‘Veep’ talks satire and cynicism 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z Eisenstein was never terrorised by Stalin in the way other artists were, and was arguably as complicit as any apparatchik, but he was certainly later compelled to abandon his experimentalism for Stalin’s favoured “socialist realism”. Hallucinating history: when Stalin and Eisenstein reinvented a revolution 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z Stalin, Ross writes, had narrow but by no means vulgar musical tastes. The rest is power: classical music in the age of the dictatorship 2013-05-10T15:01:02Z Though the outlines of Stalin’s story are well known, Kotkin makes an enormous effort to debunk some of the myths. ‘Stalin,’ by Stephen Kotkin 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z His condemnation of the Iranian government is as ringing as his denunciations of Stalin and Hitler. In His New Collection, ‘The Rub of Time,’ Martin Amis Takes On Everyone From Travolta to Trump 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z This time, it was Stalin’s campaign to bring Ukraine to heel and finance industrial development by expropriating grain from peasant farmers. Robert Conquest, Historian Who Documented Soviet Horrors, Dies at 98 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z Harris plays an American while Farrell is a Russian career criminal with a tattoo of Stalin on his chest and a murderous snarl. Jim Sturgess: a thoroughly polished survivor 2010-12-23T22:00:04Z My analogy with Josef Stalin is totally facetious, although I am, in a roundabout fashion, hoping to make a point there. Dear “Star Wars” fans: I’m super sorry I ruined the whole thing for everybody 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z But Stalin was barely five years dead and no one was going to risk a spell in Siberia by awarding first prize to an American. Piano man 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z Joseph Stalin would have instantly understood the images in “Contemporary North Korean Art: The Evolution of Socialist Realism.” In the galleries: Norman Rockwell would have recognized these socialist images 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z That wasn't necessarily such a big surprise – the Bulgakovs knew Stalin was a fan. Hung up 2010-03-20T00:05:00Z Hitler and Stalin don’t exist in this kingdom of make-believe, but sudden eruptions of violence and the offhand mention of tragic happenings point toward a profound darkness just outside the frame. Movie Review: Wes Anderson’s ‘Grand Budapest Hotel’ Is a Complex Caper 2014-03-06T15:00:02Z “The Death of Stalin” is by turns entertaining and unsettling, with laughs that morph into gasps and uneasy gasps that erupt into queasy, choking laughs. Review: The Slapstick Horror of ‘The Death of Stalin’ 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z By the time Keynes published his epochal book, Hitler and the Nazi’s had destroyed Germany’s short Democratic experiment, while Stalin had attained autocratic control in the Soviet Union. Socialism vs. barbarism: Only social democracy can defeat the right-wing radicalism of Donald Trump 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z At the Kirov, Lavrovsky’s ballerina was Galina Ulanova; their “Romeo” success was such that Stalin installed them both at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow as resident stars of what had become the national company. Romeo (and Juliet), How Many Art Thou? 1 Ballet Score, Many Stagings 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z While some in the United States see Mr. Putin as simply a revanchist Soviet, even a latter-day Stalin, Mr. Laqueur understands it is not so simple. Review: Walter Laqueur’s ‘Putinism’ Dissects a Canny Russian Leader 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z While Stalin is, of course, always a lurking presence throughout this volume, in the first 250 pages he appears only as a bit player. ‘Stalin,’ by Stephen Kotkin 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z “For decades, their owner had been the second-most-powerful man in Stalin’s empire, . . . a man who collaborated diligently in the tyrant’s crimes, condemning millions to cruel deaths.” Summer Reading: Travel Books 2011-06-03T22:09:16Z Stalin ruled Russia for three decades during which he is widely held responsible for the deaths of millions of people, many in the Gulag network of labor camps. Russian politicians fail to see funny side of 'Death of Stalin' 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z The works, he said, represented “a radical culture suppressed by Stalin — and now, ironically, another suppression, because somehow they are considered part of Putin’s Russia.” At Cooper Union, a Russian Design Show Caught in a Political Crossfire 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z Stalin, who died in 1953, remains a divisive issue in the former Soviet Union. Georgia's Stalin museum to focus on his atrocities 2012-04-09T15:19:11Z There was one last kink in the telephone cord that tied Bulgakov to Stalin: before concluding that momentous phonecall, the dictator suggested that they meet for a tête-a-tête. Hung up 2010-03-20T00:05:00Z Still Stalin remained "the hope" – despite the clear parallel with Hitler. Man of letters 2010-10-09T23:06:00Z They did not know the truth: that Kim lost his war, fled east and later slinked home in a Soviet uniform, kowtowing to Stalin until his death. Tyrant and truant 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z My vocabulary was still a work in progress, so I couldn’t have understood most, if any, of its hundred-plus cultural references: Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev/Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc. Even Billy Joel Mocked ‘We Didn’t Start the Fire.’ I Loved It. 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z After growing up fearing Hitler and Stalin, Mr. Schiller said he was stunned that unspeakable evil could be committed by someone — the 24-year-old Lee Harvey Oswald — younger than himself. King and Kennedy Weren’t Friends, but They Were Bound by History 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z Soviet partisans recaptured him and he was then executed, despite his father begging Stalin, on his knees, for clemency. Lost in translation 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z Born at the end of the 19th century, Liatoshynsky lived through the Ukrainian War of Independence, the rise of Lenin and Stalin and both world wars. Review: Protecting and Defending Ukraine’s Cultural Identity 2023-03-19T04:00:00Z The presentation of Stalin and his cronies as a collection of foul-mouthed misfits serves little useful purpose. Carry on up the Kremlin: how The Death of Stalin plays Russian roulette with the truth 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z On the evening of January 26, 1936, Joseph Stalin and several other Soviet leaders went to the Bolshoi Theatre, in Moscow, to see a performance of Dmitri Shostakovich’s opera “Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District.” Julian Barnes and the Shostakovich Wars 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z Convalescing in Georgia after an exhausting summit with Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin about ending the war and creating the peace to follow, he slumped in his chair, dead from a cerebral hemorrhage. A Day-by-Day Re-Creation of Truman’s Decision to Use Nuclear Weapons 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z The early part of this book is a tangle of fried and burned family relationships, all destroyed by Stalin as he rose to power. Review: ‘Stalin’s Daughter,’ by Rosemary Sullivan, Looks at a Complicated Life 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z He was responsible for hundreds, if not thousands, of deaths in Stalin’s Great Terror. On Hamlet’s Origins and Other Letters to the Editor 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z Because the end of Hitler did not mean the end of Stalin, and because some of the eventual Russian gains were to prove as appalling as the incalculable losses, postwar relief was laced with tension. Dance Review: Alexei Ratmansky’s ‘Symphony #9’ Has City Center Premiere 2012-10-20T02:30:07Z For a while he was developing Young Stalin, but left the project over creative differences with the producers. The welcome return of Lynne Ramsay 2010-04-22T11:41:00Z Stalin relied on culture, along with the secret police and prison camps, to enforce his rule. The Fact and Fiction Behind Shostakovich’s ‘Lady Macbeth’ 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z The red stripes are made of letters spelling out murderous statistics for Kublai Khan, Spain, Stalin, the Nazis and the United States. Art Review: ?Fluxus and the Essential Questions of Life? - Review 2011-09-23T23:19:41Z After the war French writers rejected the idea of narrative because and Stalin were storytellers, and it seemed naïve to believe in stories. Abroad: In Age of Globalism, Pardon My French 2010-04-21T22:03:00Z Mr. Schweitzer portrayed him first as Napoleon, then as Stalin and only later as a Chaplin-esque version of Hitler. Provocative Opera at 2 Extremes: Early and New Music 2011-12-17T05:03:15Z During his event, he explained his decision not to offer remuneration to the families who shared their stories for his previous book, The Whisperers, an oral history of Russia during the Stalin era. Orlando Figes to give away royalties from next book 2011-08-16T12:24:51Z After we exit the tram, Izabela stops in front of a large street map next to a flower-lined park at a square once named for Stalin. A former communist neighborhood showpiece offers a history lesson in Krakow, Poland 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z Here’s a great setup for a caper: A ragtag group of Russians team up to assassinate Stalin in late February 1953. ‘The Yid’: A ragtag group of Russians team up to assassinate Stalin 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z “Fifty percent Stalin, 50 percent Norman Rockwell,” was his assessment. 2010-01-15T12:58:00Z He was, in other words, precisely the kind of old-line Bolshevik Stalin was keen to eliminate. Mikhail Shatrov, Outspoken Soviet Playwright, Dies at 78 2010-05-26T15:59:00Z While “The Red Hotel” primarily documents the lives of Moscow-based Western correspondents between 1941 and 1945, chafing under Stalin’s control, it also lays out dilemmas, incentives and dangers that have faced generations of their successors. How Stalin’s Control of Foreign Reporters Helped Shape Russia Coverage Today 2023-07-03T04:00:00Z Stalin was never one of Serge's intimates, though he makes a brief early appearance "trying to catch Zinoviev's attention" at a Comintern meeting – "frightening and banal, like a Caucasian dagger", in Serge's memorable phrase. Memoirs of a Revolutionary by Victor Serge – review 2012-08-17T21:55:02Z Yet the shards of the hope that one might in fact change the world still cling to the novel in its continuing engagement with Stalin and Soviet Russia. ‘The Festival of Insignificance,’ by Milan Kundera 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z Even Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt got frustrated with each other — let alone with Stalin and de Gaulle. The Mysteries of the American-Saudi Alliance 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z “The Man Who Loved Dogs” recounts Mercader’s life in counterpoint to the cat-and-mouse game that Stalin played with Trotsky from the moment Trotsky was expelled from the Communist Party in 1927 until his murder. Books of The Times: ‘The Man Who Loved Dogs’ Centers on Trotsky 2014-01-21T22:09:20Z Two days later, Stalin’s displeasure was made manifest in an unsigned editorial in Pravda, titled “Muddle Instead of Music”—possibly the most chilling document of philistinism in music history. Julian Barnes and the Shostakovich Wars 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z It became clear to me that we had actually destroyed lives and I don't want to become like Stalin and say that to make an omelette you have to break some eggs. Jaron Lanier: the digital pioneer who became a web rebel –interview 2013-03-17T00:05:39Z Halberstadt had planned to write a book about his paternal grandfather, Vassily, who worked in a notorious Soviet prison for several years before becoming one of Stalin’s bodyguards. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z In its early years the greatest Fighter for Peace, according to Soviet propaganda, was a certain Josef Stalin, and the Soviet Peace Campaign always approved of the Soviet bomb. John Gittings: What I'm thinking about ... peace and war 2012-08-23T09:51:46Z Shostakovich's fortunes and reputation were closely linked to whether Josef Stalin found his music supportive of, or contrary to, the spirit of the Bolshevik Revolution. Russian conductor joins Seattle Symphony for Shostakovich 2011-03-11T21:29:04Z The final tableware showcase in the exhibition is a set created by the Herend Porcelain Manufactory of Hungary in 1949, commissioned as a gift from the Hungarian Ministry of Heavy Industry to Stalin. Hermitage Amsterdam's 'Dining With the Tsars' Examines Heyday of Russian Royalty 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z “Stalin” is a complex work, demanding a dedicated reader. ‘Stalin,’ by Stephen Kotkin 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z What if you suddenly came upon Stalin, say, or Ceausescu in a storm-swept wilderness, and he had been stripped of his power, his sanity and most of his clothes? Theater Review: ‘King Lear’ on an Epic Scale, Starring Simon Russell Beale 2014-01-26T22:47:10Z Book burning was routine for Spain’s Inquisition and Franco’s dictatorship as well as for Stalin, Hitler, Mao Zedong and a good many other dictators. A Love Affair With Bookstores 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z His strictures against the other great European tyrant of the period, Josef Stalin, are softer than those against Hitler. A grim half-century 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z Drawing from real-life accounts of the era, Cleverly develops a surprising subplot concerning the university’s renowned Cavendish Laboratory, which may be harboring nuclear physicists a bit too sympathetic to Stalin. ‘Diana’s Altar’ by Barbara Cleverly beckons fans of P.D. James 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z Wendell Willkie, an ambassador at large, said in a cable that he “spoke to Mr. Stalin” on the matter but did not “yet know results.” Mahler Said What to Whom? 2011-02-03T22:00:06Z His Stalin is not a disciple who deviates from Lenin; he is Lenin’s true disciple, in pitiless class warfare, in the inability to compromise, and, above all, in unshakable ideological conviction. ‘Stalin: Paradoxes of Power’ by Stephen Kotkin 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z She also said that she was reminded of "despots, you know Stalin and Hitler." Cher insults Trump, with gusto, at Clinton fundraiser 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z Yet she was the rare Jewish dissident artist who could insult Stalin to his face and somehow stay out of Siberia. Russian pianist Alexei Lubimov fittingly honors the woman who insulted Stalin to his face 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z Ross's doom-laden narrative of Shostakovich and his music under Stalin's regime is, perhaps, the most dramatic portion of The Rest Is Noise. The rest is power: classical music in the age of the dictatorship 2013-05-10T15:01:02Z But deeply serious, too, if one pulls back to take in the bigger picture: an early admirer of this play in its Moscow Art Theater inception was none other than Joseph Stalin. Review: Howard Davies Play Explores Ukraine's Troubles in Wake of 1917 Revolution 2010-04-13T11:49:00Z The gigantic museum includes the house where Stalin was born and some 47,000 exhibits, including his personal belongings and death masks. Georgia's Stalin museum to focus on his atrocities 2012-04-09T15:19:11Z His anti-communist rants began when he believed that Communists had infiltrated government, and that FDR had close ties to Stalin, with the threat of war brewing. Superman: Forged by bullies! 2012-06-16T20:30:00Z What one cannot follow—it’s too confusing—is the ceaseless turnover of designers at venerable houses, which are more unstable than Stalin’s Politburo. The Year in Fashion: Down with the Élites! 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z Under Stalin, the police choir’s repertoire included agitprop, along with music by the superproductive Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich. Choir in Plane Crash Projects Russian Pride and Soft Power 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z Neither she nor any other participants in this showdown have any idea what Nikita Khrushchev’s “Secret Speech” denouncing Stalin in 1956 will do to their idealism. Books of The Times: ‘Dissident Gardens,’ Jonathan Lethem’s New Novel 2013-09-11T19:49:43Z During the last years of the Stalin regime, only the most dignified of literary styles was acceptable. How the Soviet Literary Establishment Censored Vasily Grossman 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z In one scene, Stalin’s loutish son, Vasily, storms into the room to demand a role in the official memorial service: The Best Jokes of 2018 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z “What a lot of people don’t realize is that there was an 18-month gap between opening night of this opera and when Stalin went to see it,” Mr. Palmer said. Stalin Didn’t Like This Opera, but Audiences Still Do 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z At that time, Limonov was the leader of the National Bolshevik Party, whose skinhead members marched to reactionary slogans like “Stalin! Beria! Gulag!” Michael Dirda reviews ‘Limonov’ by Emmanuel Carrère “Stalin built BAM because he thought the Chinese might zip across their border and seize the Trans-Siberian, and that didn’t happen,” Mila said. The Other Siberian Railroad 2012-08-10T18:28:44Z “I’m not sure I’d want to sleep under the same roof as some of this stuff,” Mrs. Melton said, eyeing a particularly ominous bust of Stalin. It’s No Secret That Espionage Is This Collector’s Passion 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z The museum, however, was shut down by Stalin in 1948 for being ideologically suspect; dozens of its works were divided between the Hermitage and the Pushkin. Pushkin Director Departs After Bid for President’s Support 2013-07-05T21:17:51Z In 1931, Stalin's regime included "Adam" and "Eve" in a big auction in Berlin aimed at replenishing the Soviet treasury. Court seems to boost claim to 'Adam' and 'Eve' at Norton Simon Museum 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z Hitler, Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt are central characters, but so are Tojo, Mussolini and two American generals, Patton and MacArthur. ‘The World Wars,’ on History, Links Evens Across 30 Years 2014-05-25T04:00:00Z Stalin was already a ruthless and canny militant in the 1890s when Hitler was still a toddler. Stalin, Hitler and the Temptations of Totalitarianism 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z A brief note at the end of the film reminds the viewer of Stalin’s crimes against his own people — the tens of millions purged, imprisoned, starved and slaughtered. ‘State Funeral’ Review: Saying Goodbye to Stalin 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z “The parallel right now is that Putin is trying to destroy artistic expression just as Stalin did,” Ms. Wilson said, referring to President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia. Stalin Didn’t Like This Opera, but Audiences Still Do 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z There are cameos by notable Cold War figures, including Winston Churchill, George Kennan, Isaiah Berlin and, indeed, Stalin himself, who is less a character than an ominous presence. Review | A writer reimagines the life of Joseph Stalin’s daughter after she defected to the U.S. 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z “Stalin cared very little” about North Korea, Jeppesen writes, when quite the opposite was true. North Korea: Where Everything Is Forbidden Unless It Is Allowed 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z The protagonist is a brain surgeon who is swept up in these events — before being returned to Moscow to attend to a near-dead Stalin. 6 Film Series to Catch in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z There also are displays about racially segregated buses and lunch counters in the American South and on dictators past and present including the Soviet Union's Joseph Stalin, Pol Pot of Cambodia and Syria's Bashar al-Assad. New Atlanta museum links human rights struggles of past and present 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z He discovers rivalry and suspicion rampant among the early Christians, likening the relationship between Paul and James, the brother of Jesus, to that of Trotsky and Stalin. Can a chic Parisian intellectual also be a Christian? 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z Montefiore, whose previous books include a vivid portrait of Josef Stalin's Kremlin, offers a fact-rich and mostly chronological account of the conquerors, empires and warlords who have taken turns ruling and ravaging the city. 'Jerusalem': An unholy history of a holy city 2011-12-22T00:52:03Z Squirreled away in a dacha, a relatively modest woodland retreat at a remove from the Kremlin, Stalin kicks back with his toadies only to fall grievously ill later that same evening. Review: The Slapstick Horror of ‘The Death of Stalin’ 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z Truman, moreover, wasn’t even Israel’s primary supporter during this period: Joseph Stalin deserves far more credit for ensuring Israel came into existence and for arming it once it did. A Nuanced History of the Forces Shaping U.S.-Israel Relations 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z Created under Stalin, its grand arched hallways, cinematic lighting and exquisite mosaics also amounted to an immersive art experience — albeit to more propagandistic ends. Art and 3-D Magic in a German Subway 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z During Josef Stalin’s Great Terror of the late 1930s, many Ukrainian artists were branded “public enemies” and were either executed or given long prison sentences. Defying Russian Missiles and Soviet Censors, Ukrainian Art Goes on Show 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z The most gripping chapters focus on the chaos that was unleashed by Josef Stalin. Shelf life 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z She gives voice to those who Stalin silenced. 100 Notable Books of 2017 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z It was not until Trotsky had been packed off into exile that Stalin could be ready to undertake his truly revolutionary and “earth-shattering” work of collectivization. ‘Stalin,’ by Stephen Kotkin 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z Visitors hear, at various times, the chanting of Tibetan nuns, an aria, a lullaby and a Russian war anthem commissioned by Stalin. ‘The Murder of Crows’ at Park Avenue Armory 2012-08-09T15:11:07Z But after World War II, Harry Truman responded to Stalin's Soviet Union with the doctrine of global containment. 'The Emergency State:' overreaching presidents, from Roosevelt to Obama 2012-02-23T21:35:38Z In this clear-eyed chronicle of Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin, Mao and Saddam Hussein, Davis asks important questions about the development of democracy and its flip side, autocracy. Best children’s books of 2020 reveal a growing diversity 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z She was supposedly Stalin's favorite pianist, and legend has it that a disc of her playing a Mozart piano concerto was on the dictator's record player when he was found dead. Russian pianist Alexei Lubimov fittingly honors the woman who insulted Stalin to his face 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z Stalin and his henchmen, like the Nazis, didn't seem to care about such subtle distinctions. Review: A skilled cast evokes Stalin-era horrors 2012-11-19T22:31:05Z “I have no doubt Putin is attempting to do what Stalin did,” says Philps. How Stalin’s Control of Foreign Reporters Helped Shape Russia Coverage Today 2023-07-03T04:00:00Z Then, disgusted with Pope Pius XII — “who seemed to think Stalin was more important than Hitler,” he said — she converted to Judaism. A Physician Examines His Novels 2010-09-03T22:26:00Z Stalin saw one of his plays 15 times, but Bulgakov was gradually strangled as a writer by the culture of fear. Manuscripts Don't Burn: Mikhail Bulgakov – A Life in Letters and Diaries by JAE Curtis – review 2012-08-07T11:20:01Z This would seem to imply, not very surprisingly, that although Stalin is long dead, his repressive spirit lives on in contemporary Russia. Theater Review: ‘Master and Margarita’ Is Staged at Bard College 2013-07-19T19:48:20Z To the mannequin’s left sits a bronze desk lamp, which, according to the curators, sat in a villa belonging to the former Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin. A Museum for K.G.B. Aficionados? Da! 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z These calypso guys sure had great names – Mighty Sparrow, Lord Woodbine, Black Stalin. British Sea Power on tour: from Helsinki to the FA Cup final 2013-05-23T18:00:01Z Taken together, “The Great Terror” and “The Harvest of Sorrow” offered the definitive account of the crimes of the Stalin era. Robert Conquest, Historian Who Documented Soviet Horrors, Dies at 98 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z Mr. Komar was toppled in the mud along with “Double Self-Portrait,” a piece depicting himself and Melamid as Lenin and Stalin, which he saved from destruction by telling a policeman that it was “a masterpiece.” Soviet Pop Art Duo Reunites for First U.S. Retrospective Since Their Breakup 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z Mr. Rummel, in an e-mail, dismissed Mr. White’s numbers as “not reliable,” adding that it matters greatly whether Stalin killed 20 million people, Mr. White’s figure, or 61 million, his own figure. ?The Great Big Book of Horrible Things,? by Matthew White 2011-11-08T13:00:00Z True, the Nazis used cartoons, but so has everyone else, from Stalin's Soviet Union to Iran today. Scarfe's Netanyahu cartoon was offensive? Hurrah 2013-01-29T18:30:02Z Because while Prokofiev barely figures in Stalin’s life, his own was profoundly, inalterably changed by Soviet rule. Review: The Time for Prokofiev’s ‘War and Peace’ Is Now 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z A striking example is the photograph we published in this weekend's issue with Serge Schmemann's review of "The Victims Return: Survivors of the Gulag After Stalin," by Stephen F. Cohen. 'Dexter' Watch: Back to Bloody Business 2010-10-04T15:30:00Z Churchill and Stalin wanted the summary execution of Nazi war criminals. Justice and the Enemy by William Shawcross ? review 2012-02-10T11:00:01Z In this middling-quality dirge, the one moment of acerbic humor comes at a shooting party, when the host brings out framed portraits of former Soviet leaders, from Stalin to Gorbachev, for target practice. The Cannes Countdown: Six Contenders for Major Awards 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z His concoctions caught the fancy of the czar and later Stalin, who purportedly ordered him in his old age to create a Soviet version of Coca-Cola. Hungry City: Old Tbilisi Garden in Greenwich Village 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z Stalin was an Earthling; Hitler climbed up from the infernal regions. Martin Amis on Lenin’s Deadly Revolution 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z Thirty million were uprooted and dispersed by Stalin and Hitler between 1939 and 1943, a process that was repeated after the defeat of the Axis armies. Iraq and Syria’s Poetic Borders 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z Rick is saying that history’s highest-status human leaders are not ruthless strongmen like Hitler, Stalin and Mao. Twenty-one was “the perfect wolf”: He was a legend — he never lost a fight, and he never killed a vanquished rival 2015-07-04T04:00:00Z But Stalin wanted territory, and so he agreed with Germany to dismember Poland. Remembering Poland’s Doomed Fight Against the Nazis 2020-08-14T04:00:00Z Each is up for best new play, alongside Stalin drama "Collaborators" and midlife crisis comedy "Jumpy." 'Matilda' leads race for London's Olivier Awards 2012-03-15T12:27:09Z Michael Wood’s fine, brief biography of Hitchcock is part of a series called “Icons,” a rubric attached to subjects including Jesus and Stalin and Edgar Allan Poe. The blur between acting, fakery 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z Appalled by the despotism of Stalin, he eventually became disillusioned with Communism and was expelled from the party in 1964. Jorge Sempr?n, Author Who Blurred Line Between Novel and Memoir, Is Dead at 87 2011-06-10T20:37:18Z Critics are dupes, fellow travelers of Hitler and Stalin, totalitarians in spirit, nihilists. The war on culture: How conservatives and progressives joined forces to crush art 2021-12-25T05:00:00Z In fact, that isn't exactly what happens, and, a little disconcertingly, Valka turns out to have a sentimental regard for Stalin. The Way Back ? review 2010-12-23T15:00:00Z The second installment of a three-part biography explores Stalin the ideologue and the opportunist, and concludes with the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. New in Paperback: ‘Ramp Hollow,’ ‘Freshwater’ 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z In one ensemble, a sculpture of Trump wearing nothing but a cowboy hat appeared alongside equally naked Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin and Spain’s former dictator, Francisco Franco. Dragons, politicians go up in flames in Spain's fiery festival 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z More revealingly, he speaks of the time of the score’s composition: the 1950s thaw in the Soviet Union after the death of Stalin, when people were “finally able to breath and laugh and smile.” Art, Music and More to Experience at Home This Weekend 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z There were Communists and Socialists, Stalinists and Trotskyites, all giving vent to their views in the years of the Spanish Civil War just before Hitler’s pact with Stalin paved the way to world war. Daniel Bell, Ardent Appraiser of Politics, Economics and Culture, Dies at 91 2011-01-26T16:05:52Z Stalin’s prewar Bolshevik nightmare was responsible for 20 million dead, but apparently was not so loathsome that the Soviet Union could not prove temporarily useful for Churchill and Roosevelt in bleeding out the Nazi Wehrmacht. When to Wage War, and How to Win: A Guide 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z Another film called "Judge Not..." tells the story of Tikhon Khrennikov, the first and last secretary of the Union of Soviet Composers, whose job was thrust upon him by Stalin in 1948. Emigre to U.S. documents extraordinary Russian lives 2010-06-25T18:23:00Z “If you wrote a line of poetry that said, ‘Stalin was a bad man,’ then you were dead,” said Mr. Palmer, the director of the Shostakovich film. Stalin Didn’t Like This Opera, but Audiences Still Do 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z But when the Nazis invaded in 1941, the Soviet Union’s most famous female pilot — Marina Raskova — persuaded Stalin to let women fly and fight the Germans. Flying Through the Night to Defeat the Nazis 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z Do people in Russia today live as people in the Soviet Union lived under Stalin? Q&A: Masha Gessen Sees a Bleak Future for Putin's Russia 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z Except for the photos of Lenin and Stalin on the wall, the office could be anywhere, and the actors make no attempt to sound “Russian.” A Stage Triumph in Chicago: The Letters — Menacing Head Games in Stalin’s Russia 2013-01-29T15:30:58Z Bulgakov's letter is a testament to the emerging double-think of the Stalin era; at once superficially defiant, yet exhibiting an insidious desire to conform. Hung up 2010-03-20T00:05:00Z He was an architect of the Marshall Plan, which helped revive the economies of Western Europe after World War II and helped undermine Stalin's belief that the West would turn against itself. Cold War historian finishes epic on George Kennan 2012-04-19T17:08:13Z Joseph Stalin, who was responsible for exterminating some twenty million people, imposed total censorship of all forms of media in the Soviet Union. The right’s religion lie: Science, sex and the truth about God and politics 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z His and Kuznick's theory, then, is that the atomic bombing of civilians was aimed, not at securing Japanese surrender, but at shocking and awing Stalin. Oliver Stone: how America went wrong 2013-04-15T17:07:33Z The debate continues about what Shostakovich meant with his 1937 Fifth Symphony, whether the composer acted as a sop to Stalin or employed surreptitiously dissident context to harmonic consonances. An eloquent remembrance by Armenian National Philharmonic 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z That’s a lot to have done in, But where he did one in That grand Marxist Stalin did ten in. Robert Conquest, Historian Who Documented Soviet Horrors, Dies at 98 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z Forsyth also portrays Putin as determined to return Russia to the prominence it enjoyed under Joseph Stalin. Review | At 80, Frederick Forsyth has produced a classic thriller that’s also eerily relevant 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z She continues the Estonian themes, this time covering the period during and after World War Two when the country was caught between Nazi Germany and Stalin's Soviet Union, and focuses on collaborators. Sofi Oksanen bats for the Baltics at Frankfurt book fair 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z When he gets drunk, he talks about Stalin. A Red-Hot Affair With a Younger Man, and the Writing It Kindled 2022-09-19T04:00:00Z Then he changed his mind: partly as comparisons with Beethoven were bound to be invidious, but also, as he stated: "I couldn't write an apotheosis to Stalin, I simply couldn't." Hallé/Znaider – review 2012-05-25T18:06:41Z One of the latecomers was Victor Kislov, a cinematography student whose grandmother’s father and stepfather were both killed under Stalin. The Names of the Gulag 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z Trotsky’s life in Vienna was one of “beautiful uselessness,” to borrow the phrase that Joseph Stalin used to slander his rival. Vienna is cited as the world’s most livable city. Most exciting? Not so much. 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z Although “The Bright Stream” — with its dancing farmers and deliberately anti-elitist music — was a hit in Leningrad and Moscow, that celebrated aesthete Joseph Stalin found it less than exemplary. Dance Review: Down on the Dacha, Farmers Showing Off Expressive Footwork 2011-01-23T22:45:37Z In his book “The Last Days of Stalin,” Joshua Rubenstein captures the dictator’s power over the Soviet Union in a quote: “Stalin was inside everyone, like the hammer alongside the sickle in every mind.” Review: The Slapstick Horror of ‘The Death of Stalin’ 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z Under Joseph Stalin and his Communist successors, White Nights were disciplined affairs, limited to a smattering of classical music concerts. White Nights of St. Petersburg, Russia 2011-06-03T19:03:09Z This sets in motion the accumulation of an acting troupe whose sole dramatic performance will be their attempt to kill Stalin. ‘The Yid’: A ragtag group of Russians team up to assassinate Stalin 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z Stalin wanted his meddling kept quiet, so Soviet pilots flew without identification papers, in Chinese flight uniforms aboard jets with Chinese markings. Tyrant and truant 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z Koba — not for nothing named after Joseph Stalin — is as mistrustful of humans as Dreyfus is of apes, which is not a good combination. 'Dawn of the Planet of the Apes' a visual feast 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z Offering spectacular views of the Kremlin, the bridge links the chocolate factory to the gold-domed Cathedral of Christ the Savior, which was built in the 1990s as a replica of the original demolished under Stalin. 36 Hours in Moscow 2010-09-30T20:40:00Z Despite his fear of backlash after Stalin’s review, Shostakovich continued to be incredibly prolific. Stalin Didn’t Like This Opera, but Audiences Still Do 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z The American initiative provoked Stalin and led to a series of Kremlin overreactions and misjudgments, including the Berlin blockade of 1948-49. Why American Pragmatists Saved Postwar Europe 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z Fascinated by Stalin, he went to the Soviet Union in 1930 and glimpsed the shadows beneath the dictator's shining Five Year Plan. TV review: Storyville: Hitler, Stalin and Mr Jones; Michael Johnson: Survival of the Fastest 2012-07-05T21:20:01Z There, the world is barren and the grain — “Stalin’s gold,” as someone casually calls it — is gone. ‘Mr. Jones’ Review: Bearing Witness to Stalin’s Evil 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z It could also be his moment to dethrone Shostakovich following the disastrous premiere of his opera “Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk,” which was mocked by Stalin and denounced in the Communist newspaper Pravda. The Tortured History Behind Prokofiev’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’ 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z Russia — Alexei German, a Russian film director best known for his works offering a bitter view of life in the Soviet Union under dictator Josef Stalin, died Thursday, his son said. Acclaimed Russian film director Alexei German dies 2013-02-21T14:35:11Z At 40, Natia Babunashvili, an unemployed mother of two in the capital Tbilisi, is among the younger Stalin supporters, teaching her teenage children about Soviet times. In Stalin's native Georgia, Soviet dictator still revered by some 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z Published posthumously, Malaparte’s court chronicle captures Stalin as the surveyor of every intrigue and scandal from his nightly opera box. New & Noteworthy 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z Bakhtin and Benjamin's assessments of literature are obviously tied to the context of their lives: when Bakhtin was studying Dostoyevsky's novels and emphasising the individual, he had just returned from exile imposed by Stalin. Li Er: the future of the novel in China 2013-03-15T15:49:26Z The British actor stars as a Russian agent on the trail of serial killer murdering small boys during the end of the Stalin era of the Soviet Union in Child 44. Tom Hardy Used ‘Sesame Street’ To Prepare for ‘Child 44’ 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z “The Death of Stalin,” was nominated for Outstanding British Film, on a list that included “Lady Macbeth,” “God’s Own Country,” and “Three Billboards,” which was directed by Briton Martin McDonagh. 'The Shape of Water' leads nominations for Britain's BAFTA awards 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z What Jones discovers firsthand — and seeks to report to the world — is the truth about the Holodomor, Stalin's forced famine in the Ukraine. In "Mr. Jones" James Norton plays a journalist who uncovers the truth of the Ukrainian genocide 2020-06-20T04:00:00Z The buildings were originally a dormitory-style holiday camp for Russians, but the only remnant of that considerably less luxurious era is a towering copper sculpture of Josef Stalin — retained, presumably, for its kitsch value. Splendor on the Steppe 2010-04-14T12:55:00Z Damschak goes to Mother Russia to prove his loyalty to Stalin, accuses others of supporting Trotsky, and then himself disappears. This Week in Fiction: Isaac Bashevis Singer 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z Mr. Dutoit devoted the second half of the program to Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 10, a somber, at times ferociously angry work, composed shortly after Stalin’s death yet clearly still under the shadow of his tyranny. Music Review: Philadelphia Orchestra at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-10-26T23:41:47Z In “The Death of Stalin,” a farcical look at Soviet history, he plays Stalin’s punching bag of a son. Rupert Friend Is Tired of Killing 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z In 1954, a year after Stalin’s death, he was released from prison. Menahem Schmelzer, Jewish Theological Seminary Librarian, Dies at 88 2022-12-27T05:00:00Z For most of us Siberia is the land of bitter cold, the terrors of Stalin and grisly gulags. 27 best books of 2010: The Seattle Times looks back at a year of great reading 2010-12-18T01:15:33Z Last year Russia accused Ukraine of politicizing the competition by choosing as its entrant a Crimean Tatar named Jamala whose song decried war-time deportations of Tatars under Soviet leader Joseph Stalin in the 1940s. Ukraine mulls ban on Russia's Eurovision entry 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z It’s a coincidence you’re more likely to come across in the composer’s biography than in Stalin’s. Review: The Time for Prokofiev’s ‘War and Peace’ Is Now 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z All of the actors, including Adrian McLoughlin, who is briefly seen and heard as Stalin, speak English in the accents of their countries of origin. ‘The Death of Stalin’ Review: Laughing in the Graveyard of History 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z But something about Charles Dickens’s “David Copperfield” seems to want the irreverence of the man responsible for “In the Loop” and “Veep” and “The Death of Stalin.” 12 Things Our Critics Are Looking Forward to in 2020 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z Stalin Ate My Homework is published by Sceptre and available through the Guardian bookshop, guardianbookshop.co.uk, for £16. Alexei Sayle: How?Stalin stole my?childhood 2011-08-11T20:00:02Z “This is what Stalin dreamed about but never achieved.” Perspective | The ‘ravenous hysteria’ over Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez just reached a new level of crazy 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z In response, Stalin brought in thousands of laborers to reshape chic, intellectual Krakow — considered the cultural heart of Poland — into an industrialized city of the proletariat. A former communist neighborhood showpiece offers a history lesson in Krakow, Poland 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z Mr. Romanov believes that Russia must get past the arguments over how many millions Stalin killed and focus instead on the fate of ordinary people. A Diary From Inside the Gulag Meets Evil with Lightness 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z As music critics, Stalin and his henchmen got it half right. Met’s ‘Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk’ Stars Eva-Maria Westbroek 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z The third section, beginning notionally in Egypt, is a montage of images including Jerusalem, Odessa, Stalin and Hitler. Film Socialisme ? review 2011-07-07T21:46:01Z Stalin supposedly called Boris Pasternak a “cloud dweller,” ordering the secret police to spare the poet. Pasternak’s Muse: The Real-Life Inspiration for ‘Doctor Zhivago’ 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z One was very strange: it was a surprise party where the whole staff was ambushed and taken off to Stalin's bunker. Dinner, dusk and dancing Russians: my best winter shot 2012-12-16T17:59:01Z Avowedly leftist, these Republican fighters received antiquated weapons and other supplies from Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin. 'Spain in Our Hearts' tells the American story of the Spanish civil war 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z “Stalin’s men,” Polonsky explains, “cultivated this kind of rejection of memory, of the concrete reality of the past.” Summer Reading: Travel Books 2011-06-03T22:09:16Z A biographical film almost inevitably tilts in sympathy with its subject; that’s why so many people object to any effort to cinematize Hitler’s life story or Stalin’s. | 'You Don?t Know Jack': ?You Don?t Know Jack,? With Al Pacino, on HBO 2010-04-22T19:28:00Z Also, places such as Hungary, Taiwan and Paraguay provide interesting examples to follow — including one city that tore down a Stalin sculpture and left behind only its boots. Essential Arts & Culture: 'Hamilton' opens, the debate over Confederate monuments, Mozart reimagined 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z There’s no Stalin figure in “The Last of the Duchess,” at the Hampstead Theatre through Nov. 26, unless a stage full of formidable women elicits from you a comparable frisson. Theater Review: Dictators, Duchesses and Jukebox Musicals 2011-11-15T13:00:10Z Even Stalin Ate My Homework "might have got more attention", he says, if he'd written it as a "misery memoir". Alexei Sayle: How?Stalin stole my?childhood 2011-08-11T20:00:02Z Before and during the Second World War, he was a crucial diplomat for President Franklin D. Roosevelt, charged with special negotiations with Churchill and Stalin. “Metropolitan” and the Enduring Plight of the U.H.B. 2015-08-11T04:00:00Z In a 1949 portrait, the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin is seen as a young man with Lenin. The fake photographs that predate Photoshop 2012-08-29T08:44:53Z It’s a stark contrast to the savage frat party that is “The Death of Stalin,” Armando Iannucci’s hilarious and horrifying take on events around the time that Stalin keeled over. Men, Women, Cinema — No Longer the Same Old Story 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z It was in 1989, and one of my teachers, an expert on Russia, mentioned offhandedly these Yiddish writers being rounded up by Stalin and murdered. Writer Nathan Englander's avenging pen 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z Despite attempts to tie Lennon and "Imagine" to blood-lusting atheists like Stalin and Pol Pot, the overwhelming majority of godless people seek to live ethical lives. "Imagine" at 50: Why John Lennon’s ode to humanism still resonates 2021-09-25T04:00:00Z But “Stalin” is far more than the story of the man. ‘Stalin: Paradoxes of Power’ by Stephen Kotkin 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z North Iowa Tea Party puts up billboard likening Obama to and Stalin. Crib Sheet: The 10 Things to Talk About This Weekend 2010-07-14T16:35:00Z She likened Soviet leader Josef Stalin to the abominable snowman in the 1957 poem "Calling Out To Yeti," and frequently mocked communism in her verse. Poland's 1996 Nobel poet Szymborska dies at 88 2012-02-01T20:32:13Z The Death of Stalin Rated R for totalitarian brutality and gun violence. Review: The Slapstick Horror of ‘The Death of Stalin’ 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z They are, well, something else, the whole lot: Putin, Medvedev, and before, Brezhnev, Khrushchev, and Stalin and, the rotter of the lot, Lenin. Recounting a Life of Disobedience 2010-05-21T11:30:00Z Loses were incalculably terrible, and the future was as scary as ever with Stalin still in power. An L.A. Phil reminder that but a mile, and fate, separate Disney Hall from skid row 2017-12-10T05:00:00Z He has in some ways rehabilitated Stalin, in keeping with the views of a strikingly large share of Russia’s populace. Review: Walter Laqueur’s ‘Putinism’ Dissects a Canny Russian Leader 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z Sure, there are the textbook examples: Hitler, Stalin, etc. There’s now a webseries to remind us of all the “forgotten assholes of history” 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z Lenin and Stalin emerge from portraits at his school to discuss whether his tardiness should get him expelled. ‘Rezo’ Review: The Life of an Artist, From His Own Hand 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z In this case, however, the government is that of the USSR, thrown into disarray by the death of Stalin. Toronto film festival 2017: a surge of woman power 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z No spaceships or Star Trek uniforms are on display, and no next-generation gadgets except for the hoverbikes and the time-travel device: a clunky gray apparatus that looks like a washing machine made in Stalin’s Russia. Looper: (500) Days of The Terminator 2012-09-27T12:00:49Z He did some of his best work in Sergei Eisenstein’s “Ivan the Terrible, Part II,” which got its director in hot water with Stalin. ‘The Village Detective: A Song Cycle’ Review: Soviet Film Hero Emerges 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z Some said that Korzhavin was arrested for a poem critical of Stalin. “Every Day I Wake Up in a Strange Land”: Remembering the Russian Poet Naum Korzhavin 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z Stalin, in fact, spent a month here in 1913, holed up a few doors down from the emperor’s summer palace at Schonbrunn. Vienna is cited as the world’s most livable city. Most exciting? Not so much. 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z He submits to lessons in Marxism-Leninism from a tutor — a sociologist — and agrees to hang a portrait of Stalin in his study. Review: Julian Barnes’s ‘The Noise of Time,’ the Inner Shostakovich 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z Soon there is a core group determined to stop the deportation and pogrom that could become Stalin’s last gift to Russian Jews. Review: ‘The Yid,’ Paul Goldberg’s First Novel, Taunts Stalin 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z While studying physics, he joined the Communist Party's youth wing and rose to become its secretary in the early 1930s, but broke with the party in 1934 over purges by Soviet leader Josef Stalin. Argentine writer Ernesto Sabato dies at 99 2011-04-30T16:58:15Z “Why didn’t he say anything while Stalin was alive?” ‘Dear Comrades!’ Review: When the Party Line Becomes a Tightrope 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z “OUR job is to write a story,” a Soviet agent tells a Nazi collaborator early in 1941, shortly before Hitler’s opportunistic pact with Stalin ended in the German invasion of Russia. Delusion chronicle 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z A Russian man — a survivor of both Hitler and Stalin — talks about his grandmother, a Mahler fan, as is he; music, for him, is clearly a direct line to a vanished past. Review: ‘Around the World in 50 Concerts,’ a Documentary, Follows an Orchestra 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z Stalin led the Soviet Union from the 1920s to his death in 1953. Tank battles and Stalin selfies at Belarussian war museum 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z The previous year Ukraine infuriated Russia with its own entry – a ballad about the Soviet deportation of Crimea’s indigenous Tatar population under Joseph Stalin. Ukraine pulls out of Eurovision as singers quit over Russia row 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z Instead, the first night's narrative focuses on the experiences of Hitler, Churchill and Roosevelt as well Benito Mussolini, Joseph Stalin, Douglas MacArthur and George S. Patton as they survive and in some cases thrive. History's 'World Wars' makes for fine Memorial Day viewing 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z Doug, in solidarity with many kids of all generations, believes he’s a prisoner of conscience in a Stalin gulag, with his parents as the uncaring guards. David Chase's Not Fade Away: The Sopranos Sing the '60s 2012-10-05T23:52:58Z A western reader is likely to be reminded here of Mandelstam's ill-fated "Stalin Epigram". Jade Ladder: Contemporary Chinese Poetry edited by WN Herbert and Yang Lian with Brian Holton and Qin Xiaoyu 2012-07-06T21:55:07Z There still remains a certain ambivalence in the public memory of Stalin. Carry on up the Kremlin: how The Death of Stalin plays Russian roulette with the truth 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z Maybe Stalin did too -- at least at first. Cannes: How the bankers fleeced the world 2010-05-19T15:20:00Z The story was originally published in serial form between 1849-1850, but Iannucci, whose previous films include In the Loop and The Death of Stalin, said the themes Dickens explored were still relevant in contemporary Britain. 'It's very modern': Armando Iannucci rips up rules with Dickens adaption 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z A ringing affirmation of revolutionary idealism as embodied in Lenin, the play implicitly attacked the sclerotic, cynical system of the Brezhnev years and the malign, lingering influence of Stalin. Mikhail Shatrov, Outspoken Soviet Playwright, Dies at 78 2010-05-26T15:59:00Z Among dozens of items on display are paintings, photographs and busts of Stalin, depicted both as a young and older man. In Stalin's native Georgia, Soviet dictator still revered by some 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z Western European countries became nervous about Joseph Stalin, leader of the Soviet Union. Europe: 100 years of war and transformation “State Funeral” captures the official manifestations of that cult, including the gigantic portraits of Stalin hanging from public buildings and the arrival of delegations from other communist countries. ‘State Funeral’ Review: Saying Goodbye to Stalin 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z Later in his exile he moved to the nearby house on the Avenida Rio Churubusco, where he was assassinated by an agent of Stalin’s secret police, and which is now also a museum. Chasing Spirits: Mexico City’s House Museums 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z A key work depicts a beheaded Stalin relieving himself in the top hat of Winston Churchill. Exhibit shows Romanian artists resisted regime 2012-09-28T11:20:16Z Trotsky provided Stalin with the perfect, and necessary, foil. ‘Stalin,’ by Stephen Kotkin 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z My first memory of the outside world was watching my parents as they heard an announcement on the radio that Joseph Stalin was dead. Carry on up the Kremlin: how The Death of Stalin plays Russian roulette with the truth 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z He then pointed out a collection of lyric sheets, which featured songs with titles like “Albania, Our Beacon” and “Eternal Glory to JV Stalin.” A Book Lover?s San Francisco 2010-12-04T05:00:00Z He noted that Stalin’s regime was equally repressive to independent national movements and to freethinking institutions like Vkhutemas. At Cooper Union, a Russian Design Show Caught in a Political Crossfire 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z It was part of an effort by Stalin to absorb the former Baltic countries of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia into the Soviet Union. 'Between Shades of Gray' reveals horror and hope 2011-06-04T02:35:04Z “Collaborators,” still Hodge’s only play, is a dark comedy about Stalin’s relationship with a dissident playwright. British writer John Hodge on theater vs. film, and ‘Trainspotting’ sequel 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z And yet they were naive to think that one could deal with Stalin. Inside the Centre: The Life of J Robert Oppenheimer by Ray Monk – review 2012-12-16T00:05:05Z Shcherbakov had praised the original Leningrad production of “Lady Macbeth” in a letter to Stalin. The Fact and Fiction Behind Shostakovich’s ‘Lady Macbeth’ 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z A State Department brief on the book said, “Khrushchev concludes that if Stalin were alive today he would vote that he be brought to trial and punished” for his “cruel and senseless” crimes. Jerrold Schechter, Who Procured Khrushchev’s Memoirs, Dies at 90 2023-02-18T05:00:00Z Stalin was repudiated by the Soviet Union after his death. Russian cinema defies official ban to screen Stalin satire movie 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z Perhaps one day there will be an actor who claims not to have been insecure for much of his or her life, but only if Stalin returns from the dead and starts humming show tunes. Arts & Leisure: Elaine Paige Returns to the Stage in ?Follies? 2011-11-20T02:02:17Z Stalin stepped up his campaign against internal dissent; the Gulag camps began to fill again. The cold war’s first chill 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z “No one in Paris could escape the double threat of Hitler’s and Stalin’s aggressive intentions,” writes Scheips, a cultural historian. The Fabulous Parties of Elsie de Wolfe 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z Mr. Kotkin argues convincingly that Stalin was that rare individual whose decisions radically changed history, and his next volume, on collectivization, promises to further develop the thesis. ‘Stalin: Paradoxes of Power’ by Stephen Kotkin 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z “We cannot allow Stalin, a communist, to tarnish the good name of socialism,” he says, unaware of the futility of such a battle. Review: A Dynamic Actor Redeems ‘Orwell in America’ 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z During the 1920s, Stalin needed to raise funds and the Hermitage was an obvious place to rob. | The Art of Houghton Hall Comes Home 2013-05-31T11:00:54Z When Stalin died, the Eisenhower Administration was terrified about what would happen. Q&A: Masha Gessen Sees a Bleak Future for Putin's Russia 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z During the Soviet era, Stalin made regular use of his private box at the Bolshoi, promoting it as a "people's art". Russia's ballet wars: dancers in the dock 2013-03-13T19:30:02Z In his later work he investigated Stalin’s atrocities, the war on terror and the legacy of the Holocaust. Martin Amis, Acclaimed Author of Bleakly Comic Novels, Dies at 73 2023-05-20T04:00:00Z Like many other members of the Executed Renaissance, a group of Ukrainian artists and writers, he eventually fell victim to Stalin’s political ideology. When Ukrainian Music Wasn’t Under Threat, It Thrived 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z Just a reminder, Harlan Crow has Hitler’s napkins and a statue of Stalin in his garden. Late Night Skewers Clarence Thomas for Not Disclosing Gifts 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z That still made them at least 20 years younger than the surviving masters from the Stalin era. 'There are no different truths': the last years of Soviet cinema 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z Given the time and place in which it was written, the target can only be Stalin—an amazingly bold stroke. Julian Barnes and the Shostakovich Wars 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z Both Vladimir Lenin and Josef Stalin, whose revolution was born in St. Petersburg, would come to view that city’s worldliness as a threat, Lenin moving the capital to Moscow and Stalin turning equally inward. ‘A History of Future Cities’: urban gateways between East and West 2013-02-20T19:58:37Z Rebecca Reich is a senior lecturer in Russian literature and culture at the University of Cambridge and the author of “State of Madness: Psychiatry, Literature, and Dissent After Stalin.” How the War Against Truth Went Global 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z Jamala's winning song was about Stalin's mass deportations of ethnic Tatars from Crimea during the Second World War, which included her own family. Don't let Russia spoil Eurovision, 2016 winner tells fellow Ukrainians 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z To reflect the times, songs about Mussolini, Hitler and Stalin were jettisoned; two blues songs by Josh White were added. Cut, Baste, Stitch, Sing! 2011-06-21T21:44:31Z Stalin ruled Russia for three decades during which he is widely held responsible for the deaths of millions of people, many in the Gulag network of labor camps. Russian politicians fail to see funny side of 'Death of Stalin' 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z A darkly playful historical novel about a ragtag acting troupe that sets out to assassinate Stalin. Notable fiction in 2016 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z Lynskey briefly recaps his life, paying particular attention to Orwell’s six months in Spain, where he had gone to fight fascism but encountered equal ruthlessness and dishonesty in Stalin’s communists. Review | How the world of ‘1984’ haunts our present 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z She does not neglect the radical movements that flourished in the Midwest: Rosanna’s sister Eloise marries a communist, moves to Chicago, takes a Trotskyite line and follows news of Stalin with mounting dismay. Book review: ‘Some Luck,’ by Jane Smiley For the last century, their names were overshadowed by Lenin and Stalin, Khrushchev and Brezhnev, Gorbachev, Yeltsin and, finally, Putin. Books Of Style: ‘Former People: The Final Days of the Russian Aristocracy’ and ‘The Summer Palaces of the Romanovs: Treasures From Tsarskoye Selo’ 2012-11-05T18:41:09Z The performance Stalin saw, the fourth in the Bolshoi run, was followed by three more on Jan. 31, Feb. 4, and Feb. 10, 1936. The Fact and Fiction Behind Shostakovich’s ‘Lady Macbeth’ 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z Was the composer writing a triumphant work to get Stalin off his back or loading the score's populist style and blatantly victorious finale with caustic irony? Pianist Yundi adds some flair, but his Beethoven still lacks drama at Bowl 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z They were known for monumental paintings, including one of Stalin killing himself in a New Jersey motel, in the style of Socialist Realism, and for teaching elephants in Thailand how to paint like Abstract Expressionists. Can a Picasso Cure You? 2011-05-24T20:43:07Z Originally an extravagant assemblage of grouse, caviar, lobster and veal tongue, it was rehabilitated under Stalin with plain chicken and potatoes, although the mayonnaise, and a touch of decadence, remain. Masha & the Bear in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z That is what happened with Verne Thiessen, whose play “Lenin’s Embalmers,” about the two scientists who were ordered by Stalin to embalm Lenin after his death in 1924, was staged last year at Ensemble Studio. Sloan Group Is Lab Partner to the Arts 2011-05-06T23:30:26Z This bitingly timely satire, which dared to do for Ataturk what Animal Farm did for Stalin, offers a devastating commentary on what Tanpinar himself described as the country’s late arrival into the modern world. 10 of the best books set in Turkey - that will take you there 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z The poet would later remark, “My travel agents were Hitler and Stalin.” Charles Simic, Pulitzer-Winning Poet and U.S. Laureate, Dies at 84 2023-01-09T05:00:00Z “The Death of Stalin,” was nominated for Outstanding British Film, on a list that included “Lady Macbeth,” “God’s Own Country,” and “Three Billboards,” which was directed by Briton Martin McDonagh. 'The Shape of Water' leads nominations for Britain's BAFTA awards 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z It also implores listeners to “Do your research on David Irving,” who is a Holocaust denier, and claims “Stalin was way worse than Hitler.” Rapper B.o.B Insists Earth Is Flat. Take That, Neil deGrasse Tyson. 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z A composer who helped found the Society for Jewish Folk Music in St. Petersburg in 1908, Veprik spent four years in the early 1950s in a gulag under Stalin. Two Russian Tours, One Led by Evgeny Kissin, the Other by the American Symphony Orchestra 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z The letters read like a modern day Gulag Archipelago, making the Russian prison system, in 2009, look exactly like the Stalin Gulags of 1937.” In Transit Blog: Berlin Exhibit Explores Magnitsky Case 2011-11-28T11:00:14Z “What happens when Stalin’s got one? China? The Shah of Iran?” WGN’s ‘Manhattan’: Hard to build but easy to bomb Despite numerous intelligence reports, Stalin refused to believe that Hitler would invade. Vasily Grossman 2010-05-06T14:42:00Z Though it styles itself as an allegorical satire of “man against monster,” it reminds us that Stalin was, after all, genuinely a man of the people. Arts & Leisure: ?Richard II,? ?Madness of King George? and ?Collaborators? in London 2012-02-12T06:00:50Z And then I noticed that Putin became very old, very quickly, and started talking like Stalin before his death. A Humorous Ukrainian Writer, With Nothing to Laugh About 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z Due to the exigencies of the war, Stalin had made various opportunistic compromises. Where's Lenin? 2010-04-16T23:08:00Z In a change likely to make Stalin wince, the steelworks are now owned by a multinational corporation. A former communist neighborhood showpiece offers a history lesson in Krakow, Poland 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z He said Obama was just as bad as Joseph Stalin because of his allowing abortion. Anne Rice: 'I thought the church was flat-out immoral' 2010-10-24T19:59:00Z What may surprise non-Russian spectators is how the majority of the women retain their faith in the Soviet system: when one talks of Stalin as a "pagan idol" she is treated as an outsider. Into the Whirlwind - review 2011-01-23T17:59:34Z Only a small part of what the book describes is a matter of record: Joseph Stalin died on March 5 at his dacha just outside Moscow. Review: ‘The Yid,’ Paul Goldberg’s First Novel, Taunts Stalin 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z “Stalin” is set in “1953,” but it was for contemporary reasons, as it were, that I made it. From Selina to Stalin: The man behind ‘Veep’ talks satire and cynicism 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z Mr. Rosenthal attributes her “profound emotional insecurity” to her father’s having been a victim of Stalin’s purges. Chaim Grade?s Yiddish Manuscripts Unearthed 2010-05-17T21:21:00Z This was a reason Churchill urged the United States to claim European territory in the late days of the war, to prevent Stalin from gaining too much control. Exhibition Review: ‘Churchill: The Power of Words,’ at the Morgan Library 2012-06-08T22:20:58Z But, the last dance was performed in 1936, marking the end of Mongolian Buddhism’s age of prosperity and the start of its near-destruction in the Stalin era, when Mongolia became a Soviet satellite. Photography: Bringing a Monastery Back to Life 2011-01-19T13:00:03Z He fully foresaw Stalin’s show trials 20 years before they happened. Adam Hochschild Says Books Can Change the World. He Has Proof. 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z In a typically macabre twist, “The Bright Stream” was later denounced by Stalin. Mikhailovsky Ballet to Make U.S. Debut at Lincoln Center 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z James did not view Russia under Stalin as a true communist government. Green Bay Packers fans love that their team doesn’t have an owner — just don’t call it “c... 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z How were they able to accept Stalin – one of the most monstrous tyrants ever? Man of letters 2010-10-09T23:06:00Z There are photographs of Picasso listening intently to speeches at a peace conference in Poland; Picasso with Soviet officials; Picasso staring at a photograph of Stalin. Picasso: War, peace and a life of extremes 2010-05-19T20:29:00Z The coming together of Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill at the signing of the Yalta conference has long been viewed as the ultimate photographic manifestation of patriarchal power. Maggoty Lamb is overwhelmed by seasonal goodwill for Christmas music mags 2010-12-21T13:48:57Z Two portraits have been sutured to sentimentalise Stalin's life and closeness to Lenin. The fake photographs that predate Photoshop 2012-08-29T08:44:53Z But Prokofiev was sanguine about such matters, preferring to believe that artists would be favoured under Stalin and that he himself, as a world superstar, would always receive favourable treatment. The Love and Wars of Lina Prokofiev by Simon Morrison – review 2013-03-30T08:59:01Z This, the series implies, might explain why Truman dropped atomic bombs on Japan — not to end the war but to flex his muscles and intimidate Stalin, as he himself had been intimidated as a boy. Oliver Stone Rewrites History — Again 2012-11-25T03:37:22Z When Joseph Stalin gives your opera a scathing review in Pravda, history is bound to find a spot for you. Stalin Didn’t Like This Opera, but Audiences Still Do 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z And he obliged when ordered to revise “War and Peace” to include, in its martial second half, rallying choruses and a grandly heroic treatment of General Kutuzov as a stand-in for Stalin. Review: The Time for Prokofiev’s ‘War and Peace’ Is Now 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z Nine years later, she wrote a book about her life in Stalinist Russia, I Spied for Stalin. Family life 2010-10-22T23:07:00Z It began as an Allied endeavor and, according to the historian Toby Haggith, the director of the restoration, was meant to include concluding statements from President Harry S. Truman, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin. Revisiting Concentration Camp Atrocities in Shattering Clarity 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z This might be, ironically, a lesson Stalin taught, too, but it’s still an apt one for readers to consider when engaged with such a fine enterprise as this one. ‘The Yid’: A ragtag group of Russians team up to assassinate Stalin 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z After Stalin died in 1953, she hoped "to be treated as ordinary" and live quietly with her two children. What was it like to be 'Stalin's Daughter'? 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z But the relationship was also fiery, with the couple arguing often and Nadya threatening to leave Stalin and take their children with her. The sappy, poignant, and risqué love letters of 7 world leaders 2022-03-07T05:00:00Z Ms. Greene is elegant and delivers refreshingly cheerful propaganda, including the hilarious “Comrade’s Lament,” about falling out of love with Stalin. Boxed Sets of CDs and DVDs for 2012; Critics’ Picks 2012-11-22T21:24:13Z “The Letters” is a drama of thought control in Stalin’s Soviet Union, and it’s a good one — a slick 75 minutes with a Hitchcock-like grip. Redacting history in ‘The Letters’ 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z “Four million Ukrainians died in the famine instigated by Stalin, and Putin is doing the same thing,” she said, referring to the disaster known as the Holodomor. Canvases, Clay and Cameras, Preserving the Spirit of Ukraine 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z But she got her apartment in Moscow, near the central K.G.B. offices, thanks to her work on a propaganda film for Stalin and to the misfortune of another family in the Stalin era. Struggling to Love, Work and Do the Right Thing in Putin’s Russia 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z How is it that, under Stalin, lots of people who were perfectly intelligent still acted like crazies? From Selina to Stalin: The man behind ‘Veep’ talks satire and cynicism 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z Yet to be a writer when the Big Brothers of history, from Caesar to Hitler to Stalin to those around the world today, want to limit free speech requires — forces — bravery. Review | As Turkish writer Ahmet Altan is rearrested, his prison memoir is as urgent as ever 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z Crushing Trotsky and eliminating his supporters from the party leadership was necessary for Stalin’s consolidation of power. ‘Stalin,’ by Stephen Kotkin 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z Slowly and seamlessly, they read out and play out their lives: The story of Stalin’s purges is followed by the gruesome war with Germany. Human Most of All: In Moscow, a Theater Stages ‘Gorbachev’ 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z His father-in-law survived the siege of Leningrad during World War II, he said, nearly starving as Stalin’s troops successfully held off Hitler’s, and to this day he “always cleans his plate.” This American sells Russia radio airtime. The U.S. says that makes his firm a foreign agent. 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z Full immersion into the icy waters of Stalin’s mind, as churned up by Mr. Beale, might have left this common theatergoer with terminal frostbite. Arts & Leisure: ?Richard II,? ?Madness of King George? and ?Collaborators? in London 2012-02-12T06:00:50Z Go back to the czars, go back to Lenin and Stalin, you have two options with dissidents. Alex Gibney on "Citizen K": Real-life thriller of an oligarch who turned against Vladimir Putin 2020-01-18T05:00:00Z Coming to power at the end of the decade, Joseph Stalin replaced all this social engineering with, well, engineering. Fitbitters of the world, unite! How the Soviets invented fitness tracking 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z More disturbing, Harris’s radicalism leads him on more than one occasion to embrace an ends-justify-the-violent-means ethic of the sort espoused by utopian revolutionaries from Robespierre to Stalin to Mao. Can One City Be a Microcosm of Everything That’s Wrong? 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z In the Soviet Union, Stalin was certainly no progressive; he murdered his political enemies at will. Flying Through the Night to Defeat the Nazis 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z Yet Stalin is remembered as the man who modernised the Soviet Union and defeated the German attempt to conquer it, if not quite arm-in-arm with Britain and the US, then at least in expedient collaboration. Carry on up the Kremlin: how The Death of Stalin plays Russian roulette with the truth 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z He recounts how a school staged a mock trial of the Beatles – broadcast on radio – with a prosecutor and denunciations in the manner of Stalin's show trials of the 1930s. For young Soviets, the Beatles were a first, mutinous rip in the iron curtain 2013-04-20T13:00:01Z Klutsis, from rural Latvia, joined Unovis after the revolution, and would become Europe’s most fearless practitioner of photomontage, pasting pictures of soldiers, sportsmen and Stalin at wildly discordant scales and against high-contrast backgrounds. The Artists Who Redesigned a War-Shattered Europe 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z In his chilling “Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin,” Snyder explored the ghastly consequences of tyranny and the breakdown of human values and norms in the center of Europe. Are We Traveling the ‘Road to Unfreedom’? 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z From Joseph Stalin to Jared from Subway, “Jimmy Kimmel Live” made up multiple outrageous encounters with the president and asked his supporters about them. WATCH: Jimmy Kimmel gets Donald Trump supporters to defend absurd White House visitors 2017-04-19T04:00:00Z Now a neighborhood of roughly 200,000 people, Nowa Huta, Polish for “New Steel Mill,” was Joseph Stalin’s so-called gift to Krakow after World War II, and an unwanted one at that. A former communist neighborhood showpiece offers a history lesson in Krakow, Poland 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z Homoki practically begs the audience to accuse him of clichés as he depicts both Hitler and Stalin as members of the Devil’s retinue. An Opera Rarity Reclaims Its Spot in the Repertory 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z I love the way these men talk about the workers, so concerned about the people with a big P. But they are perfectly bourgeois: Lenin was, Stalin, too. Cannes Film Festival: Alain Cavalier's 'Pater': Private Musings of a Public Sort 2011-05-18T14:00:05Z Like the rest of Stalin’s men, he has helped create a world of bureaucratically administered terror, one in which each bullet to the head is rationalized on a neatly typed hit list. Review: The Slapstick Horror of ‘The Death of Stalin’ 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z He also managed to keep the country at a safe distance from the Soviet Union, breaking away from Stalin and his absolutist control in 1948. My Mother and the Failed Experiment of Yugoslavia 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z Exhibits explain how Nobel, who built the refinery Stalin defied, helped turn Batumi into a major commercial center. Next Stop: Glamour Revives Port of Batumi 2010-09-12T07:05:00Z I tell Scott the decision reminded me of Stalin airbrushing purged comrades from group photos. Ridley Scott on erasing Kevin Spacey from his new film: 'He's a very good actor. It's a pity' 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z It’s called prison, and we have the highest percentage of prisoners per population in the world, higher than in the U.S.SR gulags under Stalin. Memorial Day’s lessons in amnesia 2012-05-24T15:04:00Z The book was written by Orwell as a scathing commentary on Stalin's Russia. Eoin Colfer's top ten villains 2013-05-23T11:09:56Z Or maybe you want to check out the Stalin and Mao Listen to Us Compilation? Scene and heard: Noi Shanghai 2010-04-26T14:45:00Z |
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