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January 2025
The Sound of Utopia: Musicians in the Time of Stalin review – hymn to the exiled and executed
Book of the day
The Sound of Utopia by Michel Krielaars review – the musicians persecuted by Stalin
November 2024
The Forbidden Garden of Leningrad by Simon Parkin review – the lost heroes of Soviet horticulture
Gulag History Museum in Moscow temporarily closed ‘for safety reasons’
September 2024
Australian book reviews
The First Friend review – one of history’s greatest monsters reimagined in jet-black satire
A toxic friendship between a Soviet despot and his chauffeur is the basis for a novel that channels Armando Iannucci with a laconically Australian twist
July 2024
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
‘Shouldn’t we be proud?’: new Stalin statues symbolise Georgia’s battle to control the past as well as the present
I spent years studying American communism. Here’s what I learned
Maurice Isserman
March 2024
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
‘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
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
Brief letters
Putin’s threats and Vodka With Stalin
Each day, President Zelenskiy reads my book on military history. I hope he heeds these warnings
Laurence Rees
November 2022
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
Cannibalism and genocide: the horrific visions of Ukraine’s best loved artist
A new treaty will not end the war in Ukraine
February 2022
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
Russian court increases jail sentence for Gulag historian
The Observer view on a decade of North Korea under Kim Jong-un
October 2021
Book of the day
Skin by Sergio del Molino review – a meditation on psoriasis and the psyche
A sufferer writes about how the skin condition affected figures as diverse as Joseph Stalin, John Updike and Cyndi Lauper
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