Tag: Arseny Roginsky

The Right to Memory: ‘excessive demonization’ of dictator?

     

Historians say millions of Soviet citizens were executed, died in labor camps or were starved to death under Josef Stalin’s dictatorship. But Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that “excessive… Read more »

Arseny Roginsky: Giving Russia its history back

     

“The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.” The line comes from one of Milan Kundera’s novels about the totalitarian experience in the twentieth century, “The… Read more »