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A Russian Odyssey
At the end of the 1990s, Dr Rachel Polonsky – then a research and teaching fellow at Emmanuel College, Cambridge and lecturer in Slavonic Studies – went AWOL in Russia. This is a term that she still...
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Musical notes from Stalin’s prize-givers
The year is 1940 and a team of stenographers are recording every word spoken by an illustrious gathering of the Soviet Union’s most influential musicians, composers, artists, actors and writers. The...
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A Soviet Design for Life
Dr Catherine Cooke, a world-renowned expert on Soviet architecture and design, spent decades amassing a vast and eclectic collection of thousands of books, journals, postcards and other ephemera before...
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Totalitarianism, violence and the silent majority
Her lecture ‘True Believers: Collaboration and Opposition under Totalitarian Regimes’ takes place at the Umney Theatre, Robinson College, tonight at 5pm.Applebaum won the Pulitzer Prize for her 2004...
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Churchill Papers added to UNESCO’s list of the world’s greatest cultural...
Held at Cambridge University’s Churchill College, the Churchill Papers contain a priceless collection of more than one million documents written by or belonging to the former British Prime Minister,...
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How Churchill Waged War
Read our full Shorthand story here.A newly-published book by Churchill Archives Centre Director Allen Packwood illuminates the agonising decisions faced by the Prime Minister during some of the darkest...
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