Stalinism

This political biography of Ana Pauker, Communist leader (1944-52) and Foreign Minister (1947-52) of Romania, is based on both archival documents and oral histories of participants and witnesses. It examines the conventional wisdom of Romanian Communist history, which consistent…

Stalin’s repression of Ukrainian Yiddish writers and intellectuals is the least studied dimension of the anti-Semitic campaigns of his final years. This dissertation explores the activity of Ukrainian Jewish intellectuals, the process of their repression and fabrication of cases…

Mikhail Bulgakov’s mystifying relationship with the Soviet government, and with Joseph Stalin in particular, has long been understood to be a result of the dictator’s aesthetic appreciation for the writer’s early work. In an era defined by Stalin’s Great Terror, Bulgakov escaped…