Lenin, Stalin and Felix Dzerzhinsky still glorified today

Professor of history Andrey Zubov

Professor of history Andrey Zubov Source: Photo: Olga Klepova

Until recently professor of history Andrey Zubov used to be one of the highly recognised history teachers in the leading Russian universities. Today his professional activity shrunk to the his work in an opposition party PARNAS. At some point he stopped receiving invites from the universities to give lectures. We sat down with professor Zubov to hear his story of being professionally excluded due to his political views and discuss the new interpretation of the history in the Russian society.



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