Failing the Stalin Test

  • Russians and Their Dictator
    Dec 18, 2005

    Summary:  Polls show that most young Russians hold ambivalent or even positive views of their country's worst dictator. Such attitudes stem not from defects in the Russian character, but from a massive failure in education. The West can help, and must do so fast.

    Publisher Foreign Affairs, Vol. 85, No. 1, January/February 2006