Category: Stalin
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Is Society More Dysfunctional Than It Used to Be? (not really)
It’s easy to think that we live in a dysfunctional society. When’s the last time Congress worked together on an issue to accomplish a big task? Hmmmm … ??? We complain about everything. Education (Common Core), Health Care (Obamacare), Economy, civil rights, and whatever are the big issues of the day. I think that’s the…
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Stalin in the 1930s Part II: The Great Terror
Read Part I HERE! In his biography Stalin, Robert Service writes of Joseph as a young child being someone who was determined to prevail. “No matter how many times he was knocked down, he got back up and fought on. He broke the rules if it helped him win. Joseph was sly. He was also ambitious:…
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Stalin in the 1930s Part I: Collectivization
By the end of the nineteen thirties, Joseph Stalin was a master magician who had weaved a spell of terror upon the Soviet whole population – a spell in which truth would be suppressed and utterly unneeded. A spell in which people would extol the marvelous leader Stalin only to find that the person extolling…
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The Aftereffects of Stalin: An Essay (Part II)
The tragic scope of the Stalin era left virtually no one untouched. From the millions who died of starvation due to agricultural collectivization in the early 1930s, to the twenty million who died from the Great Terror of the late 1930s, to the twenty-seven million who died in World War II, nearly every family had…
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The Aftereffects of Stalin: An Essay (Part I)
How did the Russians deal with the Stalin era? Here’s part 1 of an essay I wrote a while back on the topic. The effects of human tragedy and trauma manifest themselves daily in the hearts and minds of those who have struggled through trials and yet survived. On a person level, people keep on…
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Stalin – the Little Boy
I’m a student of history as many of you know. I came across this essay I wrote a while back about a little boy called Soso whom the world would eventually know as Joseph Stalin. I’ll post more later, but I thought you might find this short paragraph to be of interest. (Full documentation available…
Author Mark W Sasse 