Russia’s Great War: A Call for Papers
Sometime back, we introduced readers of The Russian Front to a new scholarly initiative aimed at re-examining Russia’s central role in shaping modern history. “Russia’s Great War & Revolution,...
View ArticleSpeaking of Leon Trotsky
TRF readers looking for more Trotsky content may want to check out the most recent webcast of the Hoover Institution’s interview series “Uncommon Knowledge” where you’ll find the program’s host (and...
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Vigilance
While Dave Stone has been hard at work generating new posts and site content, I’ve been working behind the scenes trying to make sure that his efforts don’t go for naught. It turns out that over the...
View ArticlePolish President, military and civilian leaders killed in plane crash
The AP is reporting this morning that a Tupolev-154 carrying the President of Poland, Lech Kaczynski, his wife, and some of the country’s highest military and civilian leaders crashed in heavy fog...
View ArticleHistorians Behaving Badly
On the heels of this week’s revelations regarding Orlando Figes’ sock-puppet denunciations of “rival” historians via Amazon.com comes breaking news of yet another scandal involving a “best-selling...
View ArticleKatyn Papers Released
The Times Online is reporting that: Secret documents detailing the Soviet leadership’s decision to murder 22,000 Polish officers at Katyn were released to the Russian public today on orders from...
View ArticleDocumenting the History of the Great Patriotic War
Although there’s no shortage of books and monographs devoted to the history of the Eastern Front during the Second World War, readers interested in supplementing their personal libraries with...
View ArticleIn Support of Language Training
Late last week I drove over to Lawrence, Kansas to attend the day-and-a-half-long conference/birthday party marking the 50th Anniversary of KU’s Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies...
View ArticleThe Feat of the People
Several months back, Dave Stone drew attention to the new website, 1941-1945: Chronicle of Victory, recently established by the Russian Ministry of Mass Communications “for the purpose of providing...
View ArticleYou’re in trouble
The following video surfaced this past week on Youtube in the context of President Dmitrii Medvedev’s recent efforts to reform and professionalize the country’s police force. Its subject is Col....
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