STALIN'S RUSSIA AND AFTER: AUDIO LINKS

STALIN'S RUSSIA

• "Book Examines Relationship Between Hitler And Stalin," Talk Of The Nation, April 27, 2006.

•   NAZIS' DEFEAT, AND A DICTATOR'S RISE, Talk of the Nation, May 9, 2005.  Assessment of Russians' relationship with World War II and its memory on the sixtieth anniversary of VE-Day.

•   RUSSIA MARKS WORLD WAR II DEFEAT OF NAZIS, All Things Considered, May 6, 2005.  On the eve of President George Bush's visit to Moscow to commemorate the sixtieth anniversary of the Russian defeat of Hitler, news reporter Robert Siegel interviews Oxford historian Robert Service.

•   GROUP WANTS STALIN-ERA MASS GRAVES RECOGNIZED, Weekend Edition, September 19, 2004.  A news feature about a human rights group pushing for official government acknowledgement of mass graves from Stalin era.

•   HISTORIAN SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE, Fresh Air, June 29, 2004.  The author of a major new biography, Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar, discusses the Soviet leader's life and legacies.

•   "Stalin: The Engineer," Radio Netherlands, April 13, 2003.

•   JOSEF STALIN'S LEGACY, Connection, March 5, 2003.

•   STALIN: A RETROSPECTIVE, Weekend Edition, March 1, 2003.  Assessing the legacies of the Soviet dictator upon the fiftieth anniversary of his death.

•   "History On The Pedestal," Connection, September 27, 2002.

AFTER STALIN

•   CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS -- 40 YEARS ON, BBC Radio 4, October 16-28, 2002.  A commemorative seven-part retrospective on the two weeks in 1962 during which the world seemed to rest on the brink of nuclear war.

•   RUSSIA'S DIRTY WAR, Crossing Continents, August 9, 2001.  BBC reporter Tim Whewell visits Moscow to interview one man who struggles for justice for the Chechen victims of war with the Russian state.

•   A RUSSIAN JOURNEY,  American RadioWorks, August 2001.  NPR reporter Anne Garrels uses Aleksandr Radishchev's 1790 memoir Journey From St. Petersburg to Moscow as her reference point in analyzing the Soviet Union in its dying days.

• "Russian History," Morning Edition, NPR, July 17, 2001.

•   YELTSIN'S RUSSIA, Connection, January 4, 2000.  An early assessment of the importance of Yeltsin's reign upon the occasion of his unexpected retirement.

•   CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS, Talk of the Nation, June 18, 1997.  The guests on this NPR talk show, co-authors of One Hell of A Gamble -- Khrushchev, Castro and Kennedy, argue that the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. came even closer to war in October 1962 than previously realized.