Tag: Stalin

Total Results: 20


Leon Trotsky ended up living in exile in Mexico City, where he was assassinated in 1940. Credit: Corbis /Getty
21 Aug 2020 - 9:36am

Leon Trotsky’s disturbing afterlife Eighty years after he died, why does the murderous communist hero retain such allure?

Douglas Murray

Thursday, 13 August

13.08

Is this the world’s worst dictator? Turkmen citizens are condemned to live in a repressive police state run by an unsophisticated dullard

Daniel Kalder

Friday, 24 January

24.01

What unites the Nazis and Communists? It is well worth climbing the literary mountain that is Vasily Grossman's <i>Life and Fate</i>

Douglas Murray

Tuesday, 7 January

07.01

The war that saved Europe from Communism A century ago only the Polish army stood between Bolsheviks and a severely weakened Europe

Roger Moorhouse

Monday, 4 November

04.11

The War was not Our Finest Hour We cherish the myths of a conflict we know almost nothing truthful about, and which broke us militarily and financially

Peter Hitchens

Tuesday, 15 October

15.10

Who are you calling a dictator? When it comes to totalitarian excess, Trump and Boris are mere amateurs

Daniel Kalder

Tuesday, 17 September

17.09

The history Putin doesn’t want you to hear The 1939 Soviet invasion of Poland is still a touchstone issue – as the case of a Russian blogger found guilty of “rehabilitating Nazism” shows.

Roger Moorhouse

Friday, 21 December

21.12

It’s no crime to come late to Dostoyevsky

Douglas Murray