Some Questions
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Possible Starting Places
"Vladimir
Putin: Russia's Action Man,"
BBC News, July 2, 2020.
"From
Spy To President: The Rise Of Vladimir Putin,"
Vox, March 23, 2017.
Roger Cohen, "The
Making Of Vladimir Putin,"
New York Times, March 26, 2022.
Sheila Fitzpatrick, "This
December Is The 30th Anniversary Of The Fall Of The Soviet Union -- How Does An
Empire Collapse?,"
Conversation, December 7, 2021.
Archie Brown, "Reform, Coup And Collapse: The End Of The Soviet State," BBC History, February 17, 2011.
Adrian Campbell, "The
Wild Decade: How The 1990s Laid The Foundations For Vladimir Putin's Russia,"
Conversation, July 2, 2020.
Archie Brown, "Perestroika:
Reform That Changed The World,"
BBC News, March 10, 2015.
"25
February 1956: Khrushchev Lashes out At Stalin,"
On This Day, BBC.
Shaun Walker, "How
Victory Day Became Central To Putin's Idea Of Russian Identity,"
Guardian, May 6, 2022.
Richard Cohen, "Vladimir Putin's Rewriting Of History Draws On A Long Tradition Of Soviet Myth-Making," Smithsonian (March 18, 2022).
Sarah Rainsford, "Putin
And Peter The Great: Russian Leader Likens Himself To 18th Century Tsar,"
BBC News, June 10, 2022.
Alexander Hill, "Deep-Rooted
Russian Fear Of The West Has Fuelled Putin's Invasion Of Ukraine,"
Conversation, March 3, 2022.
History In The News
Andrew Roth, "Putin
Compares Himself To Peter The Great In Quest To Take Back Russian Lands,"
Guardian, June 10, 2022.
Sarah Rainsford, "Putin
And Peter The Great: Russian Leader Likens Himself To 18th Century Tsar,"
BBC News, June 10, 2022.
Tony Ward, "Military
History Is Repeating For Russia Under Putin's Regime Of Thieves,"
Conversation, May 26, 2022.
Alastair Kocho-Williams, "Russia
Is Being Made A Pariah State -- Just Like It And The Soviet Union Were For
Most Of The Last 105 Years,"
Conversation, May 10, 2022.
Stefan Wolff and Tatyana Malyarenko, "Ukraine:
Victory Day Celebrations Can't Mask How Badly Things Are Going For Vladimir
Putin,"
Conversation, May 9, 2022.
Paul Kirby, "Why
9 May Victory Day Is So Important For Russia,"
BBC News, May 6, 2022.
Shaun Walker, "How
Victory Day Became Central To Putin's Idea Of Russian Identity,"
Guardian, May 6, 2022.
Dan Bilefsky and Anton Troianovski, "What
Is Russia's May 9 Victory Day And Why Is It So Significant This Year?,"
New York Times, May 4, 2022.
Anna-Sophie Maass, "Russia's Long Journey From Partner Of The West To Pariah Reflects A Huge Failure Of Its Diplomacy," Conversation, April 28, 2022.
Jennifer Mathers and Allyson Edwards, "Russia:
Programme Of 'Patriotic Education' Aims To Create Next Generation Of Putin
Faithful,"
Conversation, April 21, 2022.
Oleksa Drachewych, "How
Russia's Fixation On The Second World War Helps Explain Its Ukraine Invasion,"
Conversation, April 21, 2022.
Stefan Dege, "Power
And Myth Of The Kremlin,"
DW, April 11, 2022.
Tomas Sniegon, "Russia's
Denial Of Responsibility For Atrocities In Bucha Recalls 50 Years Of Lies Over
The Katyn Massacre,"
Conversation, April 6, 2022.
"The
History Of The Red Army -- Part I,"
DW, April 5, 2022.
Mariya Petkova, "Putin's
Russia: From A 'Great Power' To A 'Pariah State,'"
Al Jazeera, April 5, 2022.
Juliane Furst, "A
Youthquake Against Putin Is Unlikely; The History Of Soviet Hippies Shows Why,"
Guardian, April 1, 2022.
Roger Cohen, "The
Making Of Vladimir Putin,"
New York Times, March 26, 2022.
Robert Frost, "The
Russian Victim Myth: Here's The History Behind It,"
Conversation, March 25, 2022.
Rayna Breuer, "The
Cocktail Of Ideologies Behind Vladimir Putin,"
DW, March 24, 2022.
Jane Burbank, "The
Grand Theory Driving Putin To War,"
New York Times, March 22, 2022.
Lynne Viola, "Putin's
War On History Is Another Form Of Domestic Repression,"
Conversation, March 18, 2022.
James Krapfl, "How
Catherine The Great May Have Inspired Putin's Ukraine Invasion,"
Conversation, March 14, 2022.
Christoph Mick, "How
Moscow Has Long Used The Historic Kyivan Rus State To Justify Expansion,"
Conversation, March 8, 2022.
Alexander Hill, "Deep-Rooted
Russian Fear Of The West Has Fuelled Putin's Invasion Of Ukraine,"
Conversation, March 3, 2022.
Lena Surzho Harned, "Holy
Wars: How A Cathedral Of Guns And Glory Symbolizes Putin's Russia,"
Conversation, March 2, 2022.
Jonathan Steele, "Understanding
Putin's Narrative About Ukraine Is The Master Key To This Crisis,"
Guardian, February 23, 2022.
Sarah Rainsford and Paul Adams, "Putin's
Angry Speech Rewriting Ukraine's History,"
BBC News, February 22, 2022.
Patrick Wintour, "Russia's
Belief In Nato 'Betrayed' -- And Why It Matters Today,"
Guardian, January 12, 2022.
"Memorial:
Russia's Civil Rights Group Uncovering An Uncomfortable Past,"
BBC News, January 2, 2022.
Sheila Fitzpatrick, "This
December Is The 30th Anniversary Of The Fall Of The Soviet Union -- How Does
An Empire Collapse?,"
Conversation, December 7, 2021.
"In
Pictures: A History Of U.S. - Russian Summits,"
BBC News, June 16, 2021.
Hilde Hoogenboom, "Alexei
Navalny Leads Russians In A Historic Battle Against Arbitrary Rule, With Words
Echoing Catherine The Great,"
Conversation, February 25, 2021.
Juliette Faure, "Russian
Cosmism: A National Mythology Against Transhumanism,"
Conversation, January 11, 2021.
Luke Harding, "Alexei
Navalny And The Long History Of Poisoned Kremlin Critics,"
Guardian, August 20, 2020.
James Rodgers, "From
Lenin To Putin: Russia's Turbulent History As Told By The Foreign Press,"
Conversation, July 23, 2020.
Andrea Gullotta, "Russia
And The Gulag: Putin Is Fighting For State Control Over How Soviet Horrors Are
Remembered,"
Conversation, July 10, 2020.
Roman Goncharenko, "Russian
Embassy Hawks Putin World War II Article,"
DW, June 24, 2020.
William Niven, "VE
Day: 'Money War' Continues Between Europe And Russia Even Under Lockdown,"
Conversation, May 7, 2020.
James Rodgers, "Vladimir
Putin's Two Decades At The Helm Have Remade Russia And Its Place In The World,"
Conversation, March 23, 2020.
Mikhail Bushuev, "Boris
Nemtsov: The Man Who Dared To Criticize Vladimir Putin,"
DW, February 27, 2020.
Andrew Higgins, "The
War That Continues To Shape Russia, 25 Years Later,"
New York Times, December 10, 2019.
Richard Gunderman, "World's
Deadliest Inventor: Mikhail Kalashnikov And His AK-47,"
Conversation, November 8, 2019.
Gregory R. Witkowski, "'Chernobyl'
Shows How Mass Mobilizations Saved Europe And Doomed The Soviet Union,"
Conversation, September 19, 2019.
"Chernobyl:
The End Of A Three-Decade Experiment,"
BBC News, February 14, 2019.
"Yuri
Gagarin -- The Beginning Of Human Space Travel,"
DW, March 27, 2018.
Theodore Christou, "The
Byzantine History Of Putin's Russian Empire,"
Conversation, March 15, 2018.
"Beslan
School Siege: Russia 'Failed' In 2004 Massacre,"
BBC News, April 13, 2017.
Sophie Pinkham, "How
Annexing Crimea Allowed Putin To Claim He Had Made Russia Great Again,"
Guardian, March 22, 2017.
Keith Gessen, "Killer,
Kleptocrat, Genius, Spy: The Many Myths Of Vladimir Putin,"
Guardian, February 22, 2017.
Shaun Walker, "The
Murder That Killed Free Media In Russia,"
Guardian, October 5, 2016.
Alexander Titov, "Russia
And Turkey: A Long History Of Turbulent Relations,"
Conversation, November 28, 2015.
Vitaly Shevchenko, "Russian
Orthodox Church Lends Weight To Putin Patriotism,"
BBC News, August 21, 2015.
Neil MacFarquhar, "Another
Huge Statue In Russia?: Not Rare, But Hugely Divisive,"
New York Times, May 28, 2015.
Alec Luhn, "15 Years Of Vladimir Putin: 15 Ways He Has Changed Russia And The World," Guardian, May 6, 2015.
Mark Edele, "Russia
Still Struggles With A Violent Past, 70 Years After The Defeat Of Nazism,"
Conversation, May 6, 2015.
Dmitry Muratov, "'The Chechen Wars Murdered Russian Democracy In Its Cradle,'" Guardian, December 12, 2014.
Mansur Mirovalev, "Chechnya, Russia And 20 Years Of Conflict," Al Jazeera, December 11, 2014.
Bridget Coaker, "Collapse Of The USSR -- In Pictures," Guardian, July 14, 2014.
Neil
MacFarquhar, "Russia
Revisits Its History To Nail Down Its Future,"
New York Times, May 11, 2014.
Brian Glyn Williams, "Who
Are The Chechens?,"
History News Network, April 22, 2013.
Steve Rosenberg, "Solzenitsyn's
'One Day': The Book that Shook The USSR,"
BBC Newsmagazine, November 20, 2012.
Artem Krechetnikov, "Moscow
Theatre Siege: Questions Remain Unanswered,"
BBC News, October 24, 2012.
Bridget Kendall, "Moscow
1991: A Coup That Seemed Doomed From The Start,"
BBC News, August 18, 2011.
"How
The Soviet Union Slipped Silently From Power 20 Years Ago,"
DW, August 18, 2011.
"Dissident
Writer Solzhenitsyn Laid To Rest In Moscow,"
DW, August 6, 2008.
Steve Rosenberg,
"Wounds Of Past Haunts Cossacks,"
BBC News, June 11, 2006.
John Rettie, "The Secret Speech That Changed World History," Observer, February 26, 2006.
"Yeltsin Bows Out: Special Report," BBC News, January 4, 2000.
"28
April 1986: Soviets Admit Nuclear Accident,"
On This Day, BBC.
"10
November 1982: Brezhnev Rumours Sweep Moscow,"
On This Day, BBC.
"15
October 1964: Khrushchev 'Retires' As Head Of USSR,"
On This Day, BBC.
Video Sources
"Russia's
War Tactics In Ukraine Are Throwback To The Chechnyan War,"
PBS Newshour, March 27, 2022. (4 mins)
"Russia:
Journey To A Divided Country,"
Arte, March 15, 2022. (21 mins)
"Putin's
War: View From Russia,"
Between Us, Al Jazeera, March 21, 2022. (5 mins)
"Censorship,
Arrests, Shutdowns: Putin Crushes Russian Media,"
Listening Post, Al Jazeera, March 12, 2022. (25 mins)
"'A
New Kind Of Czar': Putin's Path From The KGB To The Presidency,"
PBS Newshour, March 9, 2022. (8 mins)
"Russia's
Banned Youth," Close
Up, Al Jazeera, February 10, 2022. (11 mins)
"30
Years After The Collapse Of The USSR -- Spring Of Hope Or Winter Of Despair?,"
DW, January 17, 2022. (12 mins)
"The
Fall Of The Soviet Union, 30 Years On,"
Revisited, France 24, January 7, 2022. (17 mins)
"How
Russia Is Trying To Control History In Bid For Geo-Political Strength,"
PBS Newshour, December 28, 2021. (10 mins)
"In
Russia, The Battle For The Memory Of Soviet Repressions,"
Revisited, France 24, December 17, 2021. (17 mins)
"Russia:
How Putin Is Silencing His Opponents,"
The Economist, November 11, 2021. (16 mins)
"Russia:
Land Of Contrasts,"
Arte Documentary, October 14, 2021. (12 mins)
"Russia:
Putin's World View,"
Arte, September 3, 2021. (25 mins)
"Russia
And Islam," Arte
Documentary, June 12, 2021. (24 mins)
"Why
Navalny Poses A Special Challenge To Putin's Leadership,"
PBS Newshour, April 21, 2021. (9 mins)
"The
Bitter Fight To Preserve Russia's Lake Baikal,"
The National, CBC, April 5, 2021. (9 mins)
"How
Alexei Navalny Became Putin's Greatest Threat,"
Vox, February 26, 2021. (11 mins)
"Poking
The Bear," Foreign
Correspondent, ABC, February 16, 2021. (29 mins)
"Who
Is Alexey Navalny?,"
Start Here, Al Jazeera, February 4, 2021. (8 mins)
"Generation
Putin," DW
Documentary, August 23, 2020. (42 mins)
"Putin's
Pride -- Cossacks And The Church,"
DW, March 26, 2020.
"Russia Conquers Its Far East," Reporters, France 24, October 25, 2019.
"Putin's
Russia And The Ghost Of The Romanovs,"
Economist, July 17, 2018.
"Russia: Rejecting The West," BBC News, March 10, 2018.
"Putin:
Master Of The Game,"
DW Documentary, February 23, 2018.
"Putin,
The New Tsar," BBC,
2018.
"Putin's
Revenge," Frontline,
PBS, October 25.November 1, 2017.
"Russia:
The Orthodox Connection,"
People And Power, Al Jazeera, October 19, 2017.
"Moscow's Empire -- Rise And Fall,"
DW Documentary, 2017:
"Gulag Still Casts Shadow Over Russian Town," Revisited, France 24, September 16, 2015.
"Chechnya: Grozny Revisited," Revisited, France 24, December 11, 2014.
"Born
In The USSR: 28 Up,"
2012:
"Remembering The Overthrow Of Gorbachev, 20 Years Later," PBS Newshour, August 19, 2011.
"Russian Godfathers," BBC:
"Rise And Fall Of The Russian Oligarchs," 2006.
News In Context
"Country
Profile: Russia,"
BBC News.
"Timeline: Russia," BBC News.
"Regions And Territories: Chechnya,"
BBC News.
Daniel Boffey, "Why
Is Kaliningrad At The Centre Of A Row Between Russia And Lithuania?,"
Guardian, June 21, 2022.
Kamal Alam, "How
Syria Made Putin's Russia An Orthodox Power,"
Middle East Eye, May 11, 2022.
Paul Kirby, "Why
Has Russia Invaded Ukraine And What Does Putin Want?,"
BBC News, May 9, 2022.
Jen Kirby and Jonathan Guyer, "Russia's War In Ukraine, Explained," Vox, March 6, 2022.
David Smith, "'All
I Could Do Was Film': The Making Of A Shocking Movie On Alexei Navalny,"
Guardian, April 23, 2022.
Valerie Sperling et al., "Vladimir
Putin, The Czar Of Macho Politics, Is Threatened By Gender And Sexuality Rights,"
Conversation, April 11, 2022.
Gideon Rachman, "Understanding
Vladimir Putin, The Man Who Fooled The World,"
Guardian, April 9, 2022.
"Alexei
Navalny Sentenced To 9 More Years In Prison After Fraud Conviction,"
Guardian, March 22, 2022.
Allan Little, "Ukraine
War: Putin Has Redrawn The World -- But Not The Way He Wanted,"
BBC News, March 19, 2022.
Patrick Wintour, "Can
The West Slaughter Putin's Sacred Cash Cow?,"
Guardian, March 14, 2022.
Somdeep Sen, "Why
Is India Standing With Putin's Russia?,"
Al Jazeera, March 14, 2022.
Antonio Cascais, "Russia's
Engagement With Africa Pays Off,"
DW, March 9, 2022.
Pjotr Sauer, "Why
Has The Letter Z Become The Symbol Of War For Russia?,"
Guardian, March 7, 2022.
Katherine Schulten and Natalie Proulx, "Lesson
Of The Day: 'The Invasion Of Ukraine -- How Russia Attacked And What Happens
Next,'" New York
Times, February 24, 2022.
William Noah Glucroft, "NATO:
Why Russia Has A Problem With Its Eastward Expansion,"
DW, February 23, 2022.
Regina Smyth, "A
Year After Navalny's Return, Putin Remains Atop A Changed Russia,"
Conversation, January 20, 2022.
"Russia
Recognizes Independence Of Ukraine Separatist Regions,"
DW, February 21, 2022.
William Partlett, "By
Jailing Alexei Navalny, The Kremlin May Turn Him Into An Even More Potent
Opposition Symbol,"
Conversation, February 2, 2021.
Regina Smyth, "How Alexei Navalny Revolutionized Opposition Politics In Russia, Before His Apparent Poisoning," Conversation, August 21, 2020.
Aurel Brown, "Putin's
Contentious Victory Could Mean Dark Days Ahead For Russia,"
Conversation, July 8, 2020.
Andrew Roth, "Mosaic
Glorifying Crimea Annexation Ditched From New Russian Cathedral,"
Guardian, May 1, 2020.
Megha Mohan and Nina Nazarova, "Olga
Misik: Russia's 'Tiananmen Teen' Protester On Front Line,"
BBC News, August 7, 2019.
Taras Kuzio, "How
Putin Used Propaganda To Deftly Turn Russians Against Ukrainians,"
Conversation, July 25, 2017.
"North
Caucasus: At A Glance,"
BBC News, January 25, 2011.
Audio Sources
"How Putin Co-Opted Russia's Biggest Holiday," The Daily, New York Times, May 10, 2022. (29 mins)
"A Priest Explains Putin's 'Holy' War," Today, Explained, Vox, May 9, 2022. (27 mins)
"Russia's Mercenary Army," Today, Explained, Vox, April 24, 2022. (26 mins)
"The Cost Of Dissidence In Russia," The Daily, New York Times, April 19, 2022. (24 mins)
"From Leningrad To St. Petersburg," Witness History, BBC World Service, April 8, 2021. (9 mins)
"The Isolation Of Vladimir Putin," Today, Explained, Vox, April 5, 2022. (25 mins)
"Putin's
Religious War,"
Beyond Belief, BBC Radio 4, April 4, 2022. (28 mins)
"Who
Are Russia's Friends?,"
The Real Story, BBC World Service, March 26, 2022. (49 mins)
"Timothy Snyder On The Myths That Blinded The West To Putin's Plans," Ezra Klein Show, New York Times, March 15, 2022. (74 mins)
"Putin Is 'Profoundly Anti-Modern': Masha Gessen Explains What That Means For The World," Ezra Klein Show, New York Times, March 11, 2022. (63 mins)
"How The War In Ukraine Is Affecting Human Rights In Russia And Beyond," Sunday Magazine, CBC, March 13, 2022. (16 mins)
"Fiona Hill On The War Putin Is Really Fighting," Ezra Klein Show, New York Times, March 8, 2022. (60 mins)
"What
Putin's Destruction Of Grozny In 1999 Means For Ukraine Now,"
On Point, WBUR, March 2, 2022. (48 mins)
"Why Putin Wants Alexei Navalny Dead," Worldly, Vox, January 28, 2021. (45 mins)
"Alexei Navalny, The 'Anti-Putin,'" Front Burner, CBC, January 25, 2021. (23 mins)
"What Was Putin The Tea?," Today Explained, Vox, September 10, 2020. (22 mins)
"In
The Removal Of A Soviet Symbol Of Oppression, Russians See Lessons For The U.S.,"
World, PRI, August 28, 2020.
"The Entire Russian Government Just Resigned," Worldly, Vox, January 16, 2020.
"Dezinformatsiya," The World, PRI, December 31, 2019.
"Russia's Vladimir Putin," Throughline, NPR, December 26, 2019.
"The
First Democratic Elections In The USSR,"
Witness History, BBC News World Service, March 19, 2019.
"From
Leningrad To St. Petersburg,"
Witness History, BBC News World Service, September 6, 2018.
"Russia's
Bitter Taste Of Capitalism,"
Witness History, BBC News World Service, April 4, 2018.
"Boris
Yeltsin's Surprise Resignation,"
Witness History, BBC News World Service, January 1, 2018.
"The
Poisoning Of Litvinenko,"
Witness History, BBC News World Service, November 30, 2017.
"Moscow
Theatre Siege,"
Witness History, BBC News World Service, October 18, 2017.
"Putin's
Russia," Rear Vision,
RN, March 26, 2017.
"The
Break-Up Of The Soviet Union,"
Witness History, BBC News World Service, December 26, 2016.
"The
Moment That Made Putin,"
Documentary, BBC World Service, June 19, 2015.
"McDonald's
In Moscow," Witness
History, BBC News World Service, February 4, 2015.
"The
Murder Of Anna Politkovskaya,"
Witness History, BBC News World Service, October 7, 2013.
"Putin
And The Patriarch,"
BBC Heart And Soul, August 13, 2012.
"Perestroika,"
Witness History, BBC News World Service, June 23, 2012.
"Kazakh Uprising," Witness History, BBC News World Service, December 15, 2011.
"20 Years Ago: Coup Backfires, Destroys Soviet Union," NPR Edition, August 22, 2011.
"The
Moscow Coup," Witness
History, BBC News World Service, August 21, 2011.
"Siege
Of Grozny," Witness
History, BBC News World Service, December 15, 2010.
Articles
Joshua Yaffa, "Vladimir
Putin Positions Himself To Become Russia's Eternal Leader,"
New Yorker (March 12, 2020).
Alan Taylor, "Photos
From The 1986 Chernobyl Disaster,"
Atlantic (June 3, 2019).
Masha Lipman, "Why Putin Won't Be Marking The Hundredth Anniversary Of The Bolshevik Revolution," New Yorker (November 3, 2017).
Masha Lipman, "Twenty-Five Years After The Failed Soviet Coup," New Yorker (August 19, 2016).
Miscellaneous
Collapse Of The USSR 10 Years On: A BBC News feature.
Russia -- A Decade Of Democracy: A BBC News feature.