<P>The cockroach-moustached tyrant (the sobriuqet is from Pasternak; Stalin returned the favor by sending him to a camp) was a fan of Ivan the Terrible. At his direction, Eisenstein did a great film about Ivan, notably glorifying Ivan's suppression of the revolt of the Boyars; the film is obviously inteneed to be implicitly a condemnation, but overtly it is a glorification both both Ivan Grozny and his successor Josip. Probbaly Ivan is a better analogy than Peter. It's one that Stalin himself saw. jks
<P> <B><I>"ChrisD(RJ)" <chrisd@russiajournal.com></I></B> wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"><BR><BR>I think that, in another couple of hundred years or so, he will be looked<BR>upon in the popular mind similarly to the figure in Russian history who most<BR>resembles him: Peter the Great, another ruthless, brutal modernizer. In<BR>terms of percentage of the population, Peter the Great killed more people<BR>than Stalin did. I have little doubt that monuments to Stalin will be going<BR>up in Russia in another century or so, maybe sooner.<BR><BR>- -The analogy is excellent, but where are your sources on percentage killed<BR>- -(not that I agree or disagree with you. I¥m just curious)?<BR><BR>Alexandre<BR>---<BR>The estimates I was given by a Russian history prof were that 25% of the<BR>population died under Peter (not necessarily killed by him; casualties of<BR>the war with Sweden, famine, disease etc.).</BLOCKQUOTE><p><br><hr size=1>Do you Yahoo!?<br>
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