Lev Kopelev News Today

A sensational book was published in Germany.

Vadim Rogovin — The internationalist doctrine of Marxism suffered the most ruthless annihilation in Stalin's ideology. To fill the resulting ideological vacuum, Stalin orientated his propaganda machine to appeal to the national-state stereotypes rooted in mass consciousness.

Gary Saul Morson on the Soviet virtue of cruelty.

Notes for an In-Camera Briefing to the US Senate Subcommittee on Space and Science

Standing with Ukraine's publishers, Germany's Börsenverein calls on Russia to 'stop the willful destruction of peace and freedom in Europe.'

Public Seminar C. T. Vivian’s posthumous book,  It’s in the Action: Memories of a Nonviolent Warrior, is coming out soon. This reminds me of an important 1984 New School event in which he was honored. That day, the focus came to be upon Adam Michnik. Today, I am remembering Vivian along with Michnik, as I seek to understand the challenge of simultaneously pursuing democracy and social justice. The New York Times, April 26, 1984: “A Polish Nobel laureate in exile stood in a c...

Alexei Navalny and Russias ‘Conscience’ Wars With roots in stoic philosophy and Byzantine theology, ‘conscience’ is a term with a powerful resonance in Russia, and the focus for an ongoing cultural war about what the country stands for. Babushkinsky District Court / TASS When Alexei Navalny returned to Russia in January, he emphasized that Russia was his home and that he was ‘not afraid’. He also said that he would go through passport control like any other ci...