Introduction: A Generation Killed Twice The Executed Renaissance is the poetic name for the tragedy of a generation of Ukrainian artists of the 1920s and 1930s who were destroyed by Soviet power. They were killed physically, their works were killed, and attempts…
A Battle Lost by More Than Sweden At the turn of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the Central European space stood on the threshold of sweeping change. In the east, the Muscovite state was rapidly growing in strength; at the heart of…
Introduction: A Chocolate Box from the NKVD May 23, 1938, Rotterdam, the Netherlands. A man of medium height, dressed modestly yet carrying himself like a true gentleman, walks down Aert van Nesstraat toward the Atlanta restaurant. Lifting his grey hat, he orders…
