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… of authority over history textbooks and the process, encouraged by Putin, of reassessing the historical role of Joseph Stalin. • The hiring of political consultants and lobbyists from democratic countries to represent the interests of autocracies is a growing phenomenon. China i...

…s of the Soviet dissident community when I represented several of them in the 1970s. It is set during the period of the Stalin Show trials, when a dissident is arrested for calling Stalin a “fool.” He wanted to defend himself by showing that Stalin was indeed a fool, but he was c...

…he system is built on a veneration of the Great Helmsman. In Russia, the Putin leader- ship praises the achievements of Stalin and aspires to the superpower status of the Soviet Union. A conse- quence of this ahistorical nostalgia is that in Russia today, 26 percent of those poll...

…ortion of the Soviet Union's role in World War II. It could easily be applied to historians who, for example, criticize Stalin's Great Terror and its decimation of the military leadership in the years before the war.'® Historians who make the “wrong” interpretations of the Hitle...

Stalin became the new Hitler as we read about show trials

and Stalin’s war against the Jews—contributed significantly to my emerging

“If I am not being charged with defaming Stalin for calling him a fool

…han chasing Middle East peace. 248 Gatekeeping does not transcend the long-standing debates between the cold realism of Stalin and the idealism of Woodrow Wilson so much as it sets us a preliminary task: Shaping the environment. To build and control the next generation of gatekep...

…ol of all that went wrong due to the European democracies’ appeasement of Hitler.” Putin has also justified the Hitler-Stalin pact on the grounds that it kept the Soviet Union out of war for a time and was in keeping with the amoral power politics practiced in that era. As for t...

…hchev to the Communist Party of the © Soviet Union in 1956 exposing the transgressions of the previous regime of Joseph Stalin. Making public these deeds was meant by the CIA to sow discord both inside the Soviet Union and to disrupt its relations with its allies. General Alexand...

…ical accounts of the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution, or the Mao Ze- dong era in general. In Russia, Joseph Stalin has been rehabilitated. He is now officially portrayed as a strong if mildly flawed leader rather than as the man responsible for the deaths of millions...

…'s New Nostalgia,” New York Review of Books, November 10, 2014, http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2014/11/10/putin-nostalgia-stalin-hitler/. 9. Reuters, “Putin: ‘We Understand the Fatality of an lron Curtain,” Business Insider, November 23, 2014, http://www. businessinsider. com/r-pu...

…n the coming century is China's Deng Xiaoping. "If you look at the other figures of the century, Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin and Mao, none will leave the legacy in terms of the 21st century that Deng leaves,” he says. "He walked away from the ideology of the Communist Party ju...

… of authority over history textbooks and the process, encouraged by Putin, of reassessing the historical role of Joseph Stalin. ¢ The hiring of political consultants and lobbyists from democratic countries to represent the interests of autocracies is a growing phenome- non. Chi...

…than chasing Middle East peace.**® Gatekeeping does not transcend the long-standing debates between the cold realism of Stalin and the idealism of Woodrow Wilson so much as it sets us a preliminary task: Shaping the environment. To build and control the next generation of gatekep...