Category Russia

Not a scourge of Moscow

As a side note, Ghengis Khan did not invade Kievan Rus (although three Russian princes lost a battle with his generals on the river Kalka); his posterity did, though. As for Moscow, it was a town of limited significance at that…

The State of the Arts under Communism

Brian Micklethwait comments on a piece by Alan Little, who is asking: “So why does art produced under Stalin not make me queasy whereas art produced under Hitler does?” Because it is simply not true that all works of art and letters produced…