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title: "Russia&#8217;s Stalinist revival, inside the detention industry, and St Augustine"
date: "2016-08-15T16:12:37+01:00"
modified: "2016-08-15T16:12:37+01:00"
url: "https://rationalists.org.uk/2016/08/15/russias-stalinist-revival-inside-the-detention-industry-and-st-augustine/"
post_id: 6556
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# Russia’s Stalinist revival, inside the detention industry, and St Augustine

1\. [What non-believers can learn from St Augustine](/articles/5060/what-non-believers-can-learn-from-st-augustine)

According to Rowan Williams, St Augustine does not deserve his bad reputation as a dogmatic braggart. Is he right? Jonathan Rée explores.

2\. [Greece’s songs of love and loss](/articles/5062/greeces-songs-of-love-and-loss)

In Greece, writes Yiannis Baboulias, a new generation is revisiting its folk music tradition to find new ways of expressing its current troubles.

3\. [The quiet radicalism of Years &amp; Years](/articles/5067/the-quiet-radicalism-of-years-years)

Transcending weary clichés about divas and “gay pop”, acclaimed new band Years &amp; Years articulate what it is to be young and gay, writes Alex Macpherson.

4\. [Inside the detention industry](/articles/5065/inside-the-detention-industry)

Despite the growth of detention centres for refugees and migrants, they remain shrouded in secrecy. Two insiders speak tp Phil Miller.

5\. [How Russia fell back in love with Stalin](/articles/5057/how-russia-fell-back-in-love-with-stalin)

In modern Russia, religious revivalism has combined with nostalgia for the Soviet period in surprising ways. Mark Bennetts reports.

[*Previous selection of long-reads*](/articles/5058/eternal-life-poetry-and-the-rational-mind-and-the-question-of-sovereignty)

*[More on our Summer issue – out now](/articles/5039/the-summer-2016-new-humanist-is-out-now)*