The Fate of Stalin’s Wife
oesph Stalin was one of the worst men who ever lived. As the leader of the Soviet Union, he oversaw the deaths of millions and justified his crimes in the name of the communist utopia that never came to fruition. Every aspect of society was infected by the state,...
The Lonely Bust of Lenin You Can’t Get To
istance from the sea has been historically related to isolation and inaccessibility. So much so that a geographical concept was invented to name such places. In 1920, Vilhjalmur Stefansson was the first to introduce the concept of a Pole of Inaccessibility, in order...
Good, Evil, and the Dangers of Ideologies With Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
leksandr Solzhenitsyn was imprisoned for over a decade. He experienced the horrors of the Gulag and went on to record his experiences in The Gulag Archipelago. Within the pages of this sizeable text, the author provides several philosophical insights. And though The...
