Archive for July 22nd, 2008

The Many Days and Many Lives of the Gulag

By Sean at 22 July, 2008, 12:03 pm

Steve Barnes, Assistant Professor at George Mason University, has set up a invaluable site called Gulag: Many Days, Many Lives.  Barnes is an expert in the history of the Gulag.  I had the pleasure of hearing paper of his at the “The Relaunch of the Soviet Project, 1945-1964” conference at the University College London in [...]

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Obamamaniacs on Russia

By Sean at 22 July, 2008, 9:01 am

I usually don’t waste my time with babble but Daniel Silva’s “President Obama and a 3 am Phone Call about Russia” struck a cord. It’s just another example that Russia is one thing American liberals and conservatives can embrace over.
Silva’s argument is simple.  “Russia is now a fascist country,” he writes. He hopes soon to [...]

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