Donation to digitize Stalin’s personal archives
History scholars have long sought to understand the logic — or lack thereof — behind the notorious purges of Joseph Stalin’s regime. Now scholars can plumb the depths of Stalin’s own mind.
Last week the Yale University Press received a $1.3 million donation from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to create a digital edition of Stalin’s personal, and rare, archives. The files contain not only new materials about Stalin’s political life, communications with the secret police and directives to the Politburo, but also handwritten notes in the margins.
And the academics longing for...
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