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Humanising Stalin?

The link below is to a really interesting article by Simon Sebag Montefiore. He asks the question, “History portrays Stalin as an inhumane and vicious leader – but he was a man as well as a monster. Do we betray … Continue reading

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The real end of the story ?

If the last post focuses upon the start of our period (the Crimean War), this post might initially seem too late. In February 2011 a statue was unveiled to Boris Yeltsin in, of all places, Yekaterinburg. It was one of the … Continue reading

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Welcome to the Russian dictatorships section of the site.

Those of you who used the old site will know it as predominantly a vehicle to discuss Russian history. These pages are designed to support Little Heath A2 students studying for their summer examination. Our examination board is OCR, and … Continue reading

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