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The Soviet enigma and its tragic aftermath
Boris Kagarlitsky's The Long Retreat provides a necessary Marxist analysis of the Soviet tragedy, says Walden Bello ...
The enigma of Nikita Khrushchev: Unravelling the Soviet leader's views on Israel, Zionism
The story of the Soviet leader’s time in power, his policies against Jews, and his relationship with Israel and Zionism ...
Will the US collapse like the Soviet Union did?
"You're next," said a Russian historian I interviewed in 1993 about the Soviet Union's collapse in late 1991. I was an ...
Trump Compared to Soviet Secret Police By Former Anti-Communist Political Prisoners: 'Shocked Zelenskyy Treated in the Same Way'
Former prisoners of the Soviet Union's communist regime have written a letter addressing Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy ...
What is the history of the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan?
Armenia and Azerbaijan were locked in conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh for nearly four decades after the Soviet Union they were ...
Sofia Gubaidulina, Composer Who Provoked Soviet Censors, Dies at 93
Blacklisted at home but finding acclaim abroad, she sought to bridge East and West, the sacred and the secular, in vivid, ...
‘Mother Russia’ at Seattle Rep: a post-Cold War disappointment
Novelist Namwali Serpell, writing in The New Yorker recently, coined a phrase that’s lingered in my mind every day since.
Explainer-What is the history of the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan?
Armenia and Azerbaijan were locked in conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh for nearly four decades after the Soviet Union they were ...