Russia: Gulag Historian’s Conviction Denounced As Escalation Of War With Its Past – Analysis

By Matthew Luxmoore*

(RFE/RL) -- In 1946, at the height of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin’s cultural offensive against “bourgeois” art, the Communist Party of the U.S.S.R. issued a resolution condemning this city’s foremost literary magazines, Zvezda and Leningrad, and in particular their publication of the supposedly...