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  • A newsreel still shows Joseph Stalin watching the May Day parade from Lenin's Tomb in Red Square, Moscow, USSR, 1952.
    A newsreel still shows Joseph Stalin watching the May Day parade from Lenin's Tomb in Red Square, Moscow, USSR, 1952.
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    Stalin’s Curse

    As Joshua Rubenstein’s new ‘The Last Days of Stalin’ makes clear, an empire that sows fear reaps it

    byDavid Mikics
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    A Son of David?

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    byThe Editors
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    Trotsky the Jew

    Joshua Rubenstein’s new biography obscures the Russian revolutionary’s violent extremism while overemphasizing his Jewishness

    byRichard Pipes
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