This week we're making our first foray into Soviet history with the Death of Stalin! Join us for a discussion of Nikita Khrushchev, Stalin's rise to power, Stalin's tomb, Maria Veriaminovna, and the Moscow Doctor's Plot.

**Content Warning**: This episode features discussions of sexual assault.

Sources:

Film Background:

Manohla Dargis's Review: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/08/movies/the-death-of-stalin-armando-iannucci-steve-buscemi.html

Death of Stalin IMDB Page: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4686844/trivia?ref_=tt_trv_trv

Richard Overy, "Carry on up the Kremlin: How the Death of Stalin Plays Russian Roulette with the Truth," The Guardian. Available at https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/oct/18/death-of-stalin-russian-roulette-with-truth-armando-iannucci

Stalin's Tomb:

"Stalin's Body to Be Removed From Tomb in Red Square," New York Times, October 31st 1961."Keeping the Russian Revolution Alive," NPR, available at https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124901338

Footage of Stalin's Funeral. Available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQjrQOnN4kY

Vladimir A. Kozlov, ed. Sedition: Everyday Resistance in the Soviet Union under Khrushchev and Brezhnev. Yale University Press, 2011.

Christine Quigley, Modern Mummies: The Preservation of the Human Body in the Twentieth Century. McFarland, 2006. 

Yevgeny Yevtushenko, "The Heirs of Stalin," available at https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-heirs-of-stalin/

Stalin's Rise to Power:

Robert V. Daniels, The Rise and Fall of Communism in Russia. Yale University Press. 

Robert Tucker, "The Rise of Stalin's Personality Cult," American Historical Review 84, 2 (April 1979)

William Zimmerman, Ruling Russia: Authoritarianism from the Revolution to Putin. Princeton University Press.

Khrushchev:

Bio https://www.pbs.org/redfiles/bios/all_bio_nikita_khrushchev.htm 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/khrushchev_nikita.shtml  NINA KHRUSHCHEV IS DEAD AT 84; WIDPW OF FORMER SOVIET LEADER https://nyti.ms/29DUqBC .   

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nina_Petrovna_Khrushcheva 

William Taubman, Khrushchev: The Man and his Era (Kindle edition)  

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1971/01/03/issue.html  

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/05/27/314961287/how-soviet-kitchens-became-hotbeds-of-dissent-and-culture

Malenkov: https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1988/02/02/904688.html?pageNumber=1 

Buscemi pronuniation: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000114/bio?ref_=nm_dyk_trv_sm#trivia 

Molotov's quote: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4686844/quotes/qt4134101 

Beria's trial https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-02-29-mn-231-story.html 

https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/caesar-10.pdf  

Moscow Doctors:

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/stories-46797678/hundreds-of-soviet-doctors-were-imprisoned-or-shot https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/caesar-01.pdf  

https://apnews.com/f4916e2e06bb274c8ccc599ea0a607d4  

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/bomb-russian-officials/ Lenin and Stalin (health)

 https://www.history.com/news/lenin-stalin-differences-soviet-union Dr. Vladimir Vinogradov 

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1964/07/31/97343336.html?pageNumber=23

 https://www.classicfm.com/discover-music/latest/maria-yudina-stalin/  

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/true-story-death-stalin-180965119/  

Mrówczyński-Van Allen, Artur. Apology of Culture: Religion and Culture in Russian Thought. United States: Pickwick Publications, 2015. 

Allen B. Ho and Dmitry Feofanov, The Shostakovich Wars, quoting extensively from Shostakovich's memoir, Testimony

Vulture tries to do our job for us! https://www.vulture.com/2018/03/vulture-fact-check-death-of-stalin.html