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21 avril 2016

What Russia looked like before 1917 … in color

What Russia looked like before 1917 … in color
Writer Dan Murano April 19 Catholic Armenian women in customary dress. (between 1905 and 1915) Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii was born near Moscow in 1863. Educated as a chemist, Prokudin-Gorskii applied his knowledge and skills towards the advancement...
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15 septembre 2015

Sławomir Rawicz - The Long Walk

Sławomir Rawicz (1 September 1915 – 5 April 2004) was a Polish Army lieutenant who was imprisoned by the Russian NKVD after the German-Soviet invasion of Poland. In a ghost-written book called The Long Walk, he claimed that in 1941 he and six others had...
7 août 2015

Robert Conquest: scholars pay tribute to pioneering historian

Robert Conquest: scholars pay tribute to pioneering historian
Source: Rob C. Croes (ANEFO) Leading academic experts on the Soviet Union have paid tribute to the poet and historian Robert Conquest, who died this week at the age of 98. For Robert Gellately, Earl Ray Beck professor of history at Florida State University,...
6 août 2015

Mort de l’historien, espion et poète Robert Conquest

Mort de l’historien, espion et poète Robert Conquest
Robert Conquest est mort à l’âge de 98 ans, à Palo Alto (Californie), lundi 3 août. Un livre a particulièrement compté dans la carrière de cet historien né en Angleterre et installé aux Etats-Unis dans les années 1980 : celui qu’il a consacré, en 1968,...
11 juin 2015

DNA Deciphers Roots of Modern Europeans

DNA Deciphers Roots of Modern Europeans
A male skeleton associated with the Yamnaya culture near Samara, Russia. Credit Pavel Kuznetsov For centuries, archaeologists have reconstructed the early history of Europe by digging up ancient settlements and examining the items that their inhabitants...
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5 juin 2015

Quand Moscou réécrit l'Histoire du "printemps de Prague"

Quand Moscou réécrit l'Histoire du "printemps de Prague"
2 mai 2015

Revealed: the face of Lenin’s secret London lover

Revealed: the face of Lenin’s secret London lover
One of the most elusive figures in Russian revolutionary history has a face at last with the discovery of an image of Lenin’s lover. Apollinariya Yakubova was described admiringly by Vladimir Lenin’s wife as the “primeval force of the Black Earth”, a...
1 mai 2015

The rape of Berlin

The rape of Berlin
The USSR's role in the defeat of Nazi Germany World War Two 70 years ago is seen as the nation's most glorious moment. But there is another story - of mass rapes by Soviet soldiers of German women in the dying days of the war. Some readers may find this...
11 avril 2015

La “désoviétisation” est lancée

Le 9 avril, le Parlement ukrainien a voté une loi interdisant l’utilisation de tout symbole lié au communisme et au nazisme. Il était plus que temps, estime la presse du pays. La Rada [le Parlement ukrainien] a franchi une étape majeure en approuvant...
10 février 2015

Russian Lawmakers Want Germany to Pay Reparations for World War II

Russia's lower house of parliament is setting up a working group to calculate how much money to demand from Germany for World War II reparations, the Izvestia newspaper reported Tuesday. Germany has paid billions of dollars in reparations to Israel since...
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