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One Year Ago: Historian Victoria Smolkin Assesses Putin’s Claim that Modern-Day Ukraine is a "Gift" from the Bolsheviks
As a historian, what struck me most about the historical narrative of Vladimir Putin’s speech was not only what “historical facts”—to borrow his terminology—Putin used, but also what he left...
"Fantasy is Not History": Historian Victoria Smolkin Assesses Putin’s Claim that Modern-Day Ukraine is a "Gift" from the Bolsheviks
To understand the scholarly merits of Ukrainian and Soviet history as presented by Mr. Putin, "Meduza" turned to Dr. Victoria Smolkin, a historian at Wesleyan University who studies Communism, the...