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Showing posts with label Russian history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Russian history. Show all posts
Monday, August 31, 2020

Nyet! Book review: Candace Fleming's 'Family Romanov'

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On July 17, 1918 the Romanov family of seven and their servants were murdered at this site   in  Yekaterinburg , Russia  which was then ...
Tuesday, July 21, 2020

At the think tanks: Czar for life?

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Vladimir Putin, Feb. 20, 2020/ Wikimedia, Kremlin A tour guide in Moscow laughed when I bought a magnet at a gift shop with Vladimir P...
Saturday, June 13, 2020

Book review: 'Justice in Moscow' by George Feifer

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If Russian scholar and cultural historian George Feifer (1934-2019) had not died, it's unlikely I would have ever known about his b...
Friday, May 10, 2019

At the think tanks: 'A Journey to the Gulag'

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Outside Yekaterinburg, Russia, a memorial to the estimated 130,000 area identified citizens seized in the Gulag/ Photo by Patricia Lesli...
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