SOVIET HISTORY LESSONS

We were a handful of unarmed 

facing a mighty state in 

of the most horrendous

machinery in the entire world.

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- Vladimir Bukovsky, the founder of the human

   rights movement in the USSR.

people

possession

oppression

Interview: John Lenczowski on the East - West divide: The past, the present, and the lessons taught by the Soviet dissident movement.

Интервью: Джон Ленчовски о расколе между Востоком и Западом и об уроках, преподанных диссидентским движением.

"We are observing a process à la Hitler." French historian Stéphane Courtois on Vladimir Putin's resentments and revanchism.

"Мы наблюдаем то, что происходило с Гитлером". Стефан Куртуа об обидах и реваншизме Путина.  

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Soviet History Lessons counters Russian state propaganda and offers cutting-edge expertise on Eastern Europe and Russia by leading world scholars, as well as an extensive collection of materials on the region's post-WWII resistance and social movements. 

Our most recent interviewees include historians Stéphane Courtois and Thierry Wolton who discuss the causes and possible outcomes the war in Ukraine.

Other recently published materials which give the issue historical depth are John Lenczowski's seminal essay on the Cold War strategy of the Reagan administration and Vladimir Bukovsky's analysis of the concept of isolationism in the U.S. foreign policy.

Сайт "Уроки советской истории" противостоит официальной пропаганде РФ, публикуя мнения ведущих мировых историков и политологов о России и Восточной Европе, а также представляет читателям обширную коллекцию материалов о сопротивлении и социальных движениях в Восточном блоке после Второй мировой войны.

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