Essay competition:
Jung Chang and the Cultural Revolution

Congratulations to the prize-winners of the 2024-25 sixth form essay prize.

The subject of the 2025-26 essay competition will be the Holodomor, the man-made famine enforced on Ukraine by the Soviet Union in 1932-33. Full details will be published later.

AT DAWN THEY CAME

by Giles Udy

Repression and Terror in the Soviet Union 1917-1953

Concise, fully illustrated with full timeline

Ten books about totalitarianism

Ten books on totalitarianism: masterpieces, best-sellers or both.

Learning about Holodomor

Resources for teachers and students

The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact:

its significance and Stalin’s real plan

Roger Moorhouse is the author of “The Devils’ Alliance”.

What Nazism and communism have in common

Daniel Finkelstein

Warsaw Ghetto handstamp

The Warsaw Ghetto was established by the German occupying forces in November 1940.

Repression in pre-war Nazi Germany

Winning essay in the 2023-24 essay competition.

A T55 tank purchased for exhibition

The kind of tank used to suppress the Prague Spring in 1968.