Joseph Stalin
Drama on 4. Moscow Notebooks. Audio, 57 minutes
Michael Symmons Roberts' drama about the Russian poet Osip Mandelstam.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
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Witness History. Building the Moscow Metro. Audio, 9 minutes
How the Moscow Metro was built using more than 10,000 Russian workers.
- AttributionBBC World Service
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Witness History. Executed in Stalin’s Great Terror in Georgia. Audio, 9 minutes
In the 1930s, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin executed hundreds of thousands without trial
- AttributionBBC World Service
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- Posted29 May
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- Posted18 January
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- Posted11 January
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- Posted30 December 2023
Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford. When Stalin Killed the Weekend (with The Happiness Lab) Audio, 37 minutes
The story of Stalin's curious, calendar-reshaping experiment.
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- Posted14 November 2023
Real Dictators. Joseph Stalin Part 3: Hitler Attacks. Audio, 45 minutes
Hitler invades Russia, and Stalin's legacy is bound up with a bloody fight to the death.
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Real Dictators. Joseph Stalin Part 2: The Secretary Becomes Dictator. Audio, 50 minutes
Stalin thrives in the chaos post WW1 but his rise to leadership does not go unchallenged.
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Real Dictators. Joseph Stalin Part 1: The Young Bank Robber. Audio, 45 minutes
How did a man from the Georgian frontier of the Russian Empire plot a route to power?
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- Posted18 August 2023
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- Posted3 February 2023
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- Posted7 October 2022
Arts & Ideas. Odessa Stories. Audio, 45 minutes
Matthew Sweet explores the work of Soviet Ukrainian writer Isaac Babel
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
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- Posted16 March 2022
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- Posted6 March 2022
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- Posted12 February 2022
Witness History. The end of Stalinist rule in Albania. Audio, 9 minutes
In 1990 Albania’s communist government agreed to allow independent political parties.
- AttributionBBC World Service
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- Posted28 December 2021
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- Posted26 August 2021
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- Posted12 August 2021
