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The History Hour: When Stalin Rounded Up Soviet Doctors

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12/01/2019 GMT

When Stalin Rounded Up Soviet Doctors

BBC World Service - The History Hour, When Stalin Rounded Up Soviet Doctors

Stalin's last terror campaign, Fidel Castro takes over Havana, and the world's seed vault

Stalin's terror campaign against the best Soviet doctors, Fidel Castro's triumphant entry into Havana and the best selling memoir about a Brazilian favela.

Stalin's last terror campaign against the best Soviet doctors, Castro's triumphant entry into Havana, the extraordinary story of how a destitute single mother produced a best selling memoir about her life in a Brazilian favela. Also, the controversy over 'Fat Is a Feminist Issue', and the world's only seed vault. 

Photo: Yakov Rapoport, one of the few survivors of Stalin's 'Doctors' Plot'. Credit: family archive.

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