Ukraine’s Famine – How Stalin hid it from the world

Ukraine’s Famine – How Stalin hid it from the world

In the years 1932 and 1933, a catastrophic famine swept across the Soviet Union. It began in the chaos of collectivization, when millions of peasants were forced off their land and made to join state farms. It was then exacerbated, in the autumn of 1932, when the...

The Polish State during  the Second Republic (1919 – 1938)

The Polish State during the Second Republic (1919 – 1938)

The Polish society of the Second Republic has built its statehood under extremely difficult circumstances, both internally and externally. Despite this, during their 20 years of independence, the Polish people managed to adapt quickly to the ever-changing Modern...

Why Stalin Starved Ukraine?

Why Stalin Starved Ukraine?

History is a battleground, perennially fought over, endlessly contested. Nowhere does this aphorism hold true more than in Russia. A majority of Russians recently voted Joseph Stalin the “most outstanding person” in world history (followed, naturally, by current...