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30 October: Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Political Repression

31 October 2016

Crowds gathered in Moscow and in other Russian cities over the weekend to remember those who died as a result of Stalin’s purges in the 1930s and 1940s. The commemoration in Moscow took place in Lubyanka Square, where the memorial…

21 October 2013

Tatyana Ivanovna Zaslavskaya, author of the infamous April 1983 Novosibirsk Report, died recently in Moscow. Zaslavskaya was born in Kiev in 1927. After the Second World War, she studied physics and then economics at the Moscow State University, graduating in…

30 October: Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Political Repression

Celebrating the Lives of Soviet Women: Tatyana Zaslavskaya