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Roy Medvedev
Roy Medvedev, historian and Soviet dissident, is an author of many books, including Stalin: Let History Judge and Khrushchev: The Years in Power (with Zhores Medvedev).
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Let History Judge Russia’s Revolutions
Roy Medvedev Series: A Window on Russia 2007-11-05Studying the Russian Revolution is almost as old as the revolution itself, with both the Bolsheviks and their opponents concealing, distorting, and concocting facts and circumstances. Although today’s new political reality in Russia is creating its own new myths and falsifications, historians remain free to write the impartial account of twentieth-century Russia that has yet to be produced.... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 27430
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Khrushchev’s Secret Speech and End of Communism
Roy Medvedev Series: A Window on Russia 2006-02-20In history, some events at first appear insignificant, or their significance is hidden, but they turn out to be earthshaking. Such a moment occurred 50 years ago, with Nikita Khrushchev’s so-called “Secret Speech” to the Twentieth Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. It ranks, I believe, just below the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 and the start of Hitler’s War in 1939 as the most critical moment of the twentieth century. ... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 48319
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Stalin Lives
Roy Medvedev Series: A Window on Russia 2005-03-29The legacy of dead dictators from vanquished totalitarian regimes should no longer be ambivalent. Only Germany’s lunatic fringe dares to commemorate Hitler. Not even the pathetic remnant of the Khmer Rouge celebrates Pol Pot’s memory. Yet, as Russia approaches the 60th anniversary of its victory over Nazi Germany, marking Stalin’s role in that victory is proving to be damnably awkward. ... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 49222
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The First And Last Soviet Parliament
Roy Medvedev Series: The World in Words 1999-10-20MOSCOW: The attempt ten years ago to create the first democratically elected parliament in the USSR proved to be the most unpredictable of Gorbachev's reforms; the domestic equivalent, indeed, of his decision to allow Eastern Europe to break with communism. Gorbachev's other domestic reforms dealt with economic and cultural problems, even alcohol abuse; here was a bid to reform the system of power. Like much else about perestroika, it foundered on a lack of clear goals. ... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 8150
