The cruelties of the Soviet Union as you’ve never read them before
Karl Schlögel’s dizzyingly excellent essays in The Soviet Century cover everything from the freezing Gulag to communist ...
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Discover the Story Behind a Legendary Exposé of the Brutality of the Soviet Union
Published on this day in 1973, "The Gulag Archipelago" drew on Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's experiences as a ...
Music Acts Like Pink Floyd and Donna Summers Banned from Soviet Union in the '80s? Here's the Truth
What do the Village People and KISS have in common, apart from elaborate stage costumes? Both acts were allegedly banned from ...
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Our Comrades in Havana: Cuba, the Soviet Union, and Eastern Europe, 1959-1991 (Review)
Yordanov’s new book fills a gap in the historiography of the Cuban Revolution by centering Cuba’s post-revolutionary ...
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Jimmy Carter helped dismantle Soviet Union with focus on human rights
By the late 1970s, the Soviet Union's economy and global influence were weakening. With the counsel of National Security ...
Jimmy Carter deserves some credit for winning the Cold War
The legacy of Jimmy Carter's administration includes key roles in countering the Soviets and Islamist extremists in the ...
Foreign Affairs3d
Unstuck in Time: On the Post-Soviet Uncanny
In his new book, Borenstein examines the peculiar evocation of time and history in literature, film, video games, and other cultural forms, a discourse generated by the failure of Russians to fully ...
Foreign Affairs3d
From Incarceration to Repatriation: German Prisoners of War in the Soviet Union
Grunewald significantly enhances understandings of the fate of Germans captured by the Soviet Union during World War II.