Tag: USSR
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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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A Reminder of How Fast the World Can Change
I grew up in the Cold War. I missed the height of hysteria of the 1950s and the many bomb drills and shelters which were common. I wasn’t around for the Cuba Missile Crisis, but I remember clearly the feeling that the United States was constantly staring down “the evil” Soviet empire. I remember the…
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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 