On 28th July, 1942, Joseph Stalin – as People’s Commissar of Defence – signed Special Order No. 227. Under its familiar name of ‘ни на шаг назад’ (Ni Na
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Email: Cold War Christian Monastics Visit the West (3.10.2020)
Dear Gillian I am slowly reading my way through Abbot Andre Louf’s book entitled ‘In the School of Contemplation’. In Chapter 8 – ‘Notes from a Pilgrimage’
The Case of Mikhail Tukhachevsky: How Trotsky Destroyed the Leadership of the Red Army (1937)
Mikhail Nikolaevich Tukhachevsky (born February 16th, 1893, Aleksandrovskoe, Smolensk Province, Russian Empire – died June 12th, 1937, Moscow, RSFSR, USSR) – was a prominent Soviet military leader, military leader
Joseph Stalin ‘Honours’ Red Army Anti-Mine Dog ‘Julbars’ (1945)
(Research and Translation by Adrian Chan-Wyles PhD) Julbars (Джульбарс)), with extreme Red Army courage under fire, managed to locate more than 7 thousand mines and
The Purpose of the Communist Party
The purpose of the Communist Party is not to look back with nostalgia about the Soviet Union, or to defend its reputation, but rather to
How Yevgeny Kamzolkin Designed the Soviet Hammer & Sickle Emblem (1918)
(Translation and Research by Adrian Chan-Wyles PhD) ‘During April, 1918, Comrades from the Moscow City Council asked me whether it was possible to arrange and
THE SANGHA KOMMUNE (SSR) 