Stalin: Our Hero

Please read this short article from the Moscow Times. I’d like to hear your thoughts on this as we continue our study of the Stalin period.

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About Karl Qualls

This blog was founded by Karl Qualls, Professor of History at Dickinson College. Karl has received the Constance and Rose Ganoe Memorial Award for Inspirational Teaching, Gamma Sigma Alpha National Honor Society Professor of the Year, and Student Senate Professor of the Year. He is the author of numerous articles and chapters, including a chapter in the textbook Russia and Western Civilization: Cultural and Historical Encounters (M.E. Sharpe, 2003) written in collaboration with his colleagues at Dickinson College. He is also author of the monograph From Ruins to Reconstruction: Urban Identity in Soviet Sevastopol after World War II (Cornell, 2009). His most recent book is Stalin’s Niños: Educating Spanish Civil War Refugee Children in the Soviet Union, 1937–1951 (Toronto, 2020). He teaches Russian, German, Italian, and eastern European histories, as well as courses on European dictators, urban history, historical methods, the Holocaust, and more.

One thought on “Stalin: Our Hero

  1. It would be interesting to know what the categorical breakdowns of the samples for these polls were, especially age wise. I wonder what the age distribution was of those with whom Stalin was popular, particularly whether they had been alive during the post-war period or if they were younger and perhaps learned about him through a re-worked historical lens.

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