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Joseph Stalin

July 2024

  • Sian Edwards conducts Birmingham Contemporary Music Group playing Sonata For Broken Fingers.

    Sonata for Broken Fingers review – chamber opera of Stalin’s terror fails to grip

    Joe Cutler’s new work – premiered here by BCMG – is an awkward mix of fact and fantasy that adds up to less than the sum of its parts

May 2024

  • Giorgi Kandelaki with the statue of Stalin in Mukhrani last week.

    ‘Shouldn’t we be proud?’: new Stalin statues symbolise Georgia’s battle to control the past as well as the present

  • A mass meeting called by the Communist Party in Union Square, New York.

    I spent years studying American communism. Here’s what I learned

    Maurice Isserman

March 2024

  • Vladimir Putin

    The Guardian view on Russia’s election: in Stalin’s footsteps

    Editorial: Vladimir Putin’s landslide victory in a fake contest marks the latest phase in a transition from authoritarianism to outright autocracy

September 2023

  • Werner Herzog

    ‘Everything became a lie, a performance’ – Werner Herzog on Soviet Russia

    The German director is championing Georgian film-maker Rezo Gigineishvili’s movie about the dying days of the USSR. But, he says, he won’t be drawn into contemporary political debates

April 2023

  • Russian opposition activist Vladimir Kara-Murza being escorted to a hearing in a court in Moscow, Russia, on 8 February 2023

    Defiant Kremlin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza likens his case to Stalin’s show trials

    Russian opposition figure facing up to 25 years in jail tells Moscow court he stands by all of his political statements

February 2023

  • Photo of the general Secretary of the Communist Party of USSR Stalin.

    Brief letters
    Putin’s threats and Vodka With Stalin

  • Laurence Rees

    Each day, President Zelenskiy reads my book on military history. I hope he heeds these warnings

    Laurence Rees

November 2022

  • Ukrainians remember the victims of Holomodor in Kyiv in November 2021

    Germany set to declare starvation of Ukrainians under Stalin a genocide

    Bundestag hopes move will serve as ‘warning’ to Moscow as Ukraine faces potential hunger crisis

March 2022

  • Feed me … one of Prymachenko’s works which could be referring to Stalin’s terror-famine, which killed 3.3m Ukrainians.

    Cannibalism and genocide: the horrific visions of Ukraine’s best loved artist

  • Vladimir Putin

    A new treaty will not end the war in Ukraine

February 2022

  • Stalin in his library, c1943.

    Book of the day
    Stalin’s Library by Geoffrey Roberts review – the marks of a leader

    Joseph Stalin owned about 20,000 books, many with jottings in the margin. Does his library hold the key to his character?

December 2021

  • Yury Dmitriyev.

    Russian court increases jail sentence for Gulag historian

  • People pay their respects at a mosaic depicting former leaders to mark the 10-year anniversary of the death of Kim Jong-il on 17 December.

    The Observer view on a decade of North Korea under Kim Jong-un

October 2021

  • Close-up of a woman's body

    Book of the day
    Skin by Sergio del Molino review – a meditation on psoriasis and the psyche

  • James Norton in Mr Jones

    Masked men storm Moscow screening of film about Stalin-era famine

August 2021

  • The Russian ambassador, Levan Dzhagaryan, poses with the UK’s Simon Shercliff on the embassy porch

    UK ambassador angers Iran with ‘insulting’ embassy photo gaffe

    Russian counterpart tweets photo of pair in chairs like those sat in by Churchill and Stalin in 1943 when Iran was occupied

May 2021

  • State Funeral

    State Funeral review – the eerie last rites of Stalin’s Soviet Union

  • A clip from State Funeral

    ‘It’s impossible to take your eyes off this infinitely dear face’: the startling film about Stalin’s funeral

April 2021

  • February 1945, Yalta Conference (Crimea). Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin, in the foreground<br>Yalta Conference (Crimea). Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin, in the foreground, Admiral D. Leahy (behind Roosevelt), sir A. Cunningham (behind Churchill). On the left, E. Estattinius and Molotov can be seen, February 1945, U.S.S.R. - World War II, U.S. Army Photo, . (Photo by: Photo12/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

    Book of the day
    Stalin's War by Sean McMeekin review – a revisionist take on the second world war

    An impressive study of the conflict’s major players contends that the Soviet despot was the dominant force
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