In memoriam

13.February 2026. Milan Milošević

The deceased historian and Soviet dissident Roy Medvedev: Judge of the Great Terror and Stalinism

He considered his life's work to be the book "On the Court of History: The Genesis and Consequences of Stalinism", about the Great Terror in the USSR. Together with the physicists and dissidents Andrei Sakharov and Valentin Turchin, he published an open letter to the Soviet leaders in 1970 about the need to democratize the Soviet system. He criticized the coup against Gorbachev in 1991, but also the President of Russia, Boris Yeltsin

The Rise and Fall of the Reformers

07.September 2022 Milan Milošević

One's own among others, another's among one's own

The life and connections of Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev (1931–2022), a combine harvester from the village of Privolnoye, the youngest general secretary of the CPSU and the first and last president of the Soviet Union who tried to reform it and save it from disintegration, and was accused of being its gravedigger, winner The Nobel Prize for his contribution to the end of the Cold War, which flared up again during his lifetime, and which he experienced with a song, grieving for his beloved wife Raisa old age

News

31.August 2022 JH

Mikhail Gorbachev (1931-2022): The man who changed the course of history

The last president of the USSR, Mikhail Gorbachev, died on Tuesday at the age of 92. While he was celebrated in the West and awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, in Russia he was despised as the gravedigger of the Soviet Union. Mikhail Gorbachev was certainly a man who changed the course of history

The World

04.January 2022 M.M

Law on Foreign Agents in Russia: Liquidated Sakharov Memorial

The Memorial organization, whose goal was the study of political repression in the USSR, and whose first honorary president was academician Andrei Sakharov, was accused of "rehabilitating Nazi criminals whose hands are the blood of Soviet citizens." Critics say it's an 'attempt to rob the nation of its memory'