The Nation on MSN4d
The Often Misunderstood History of the Soviet Dissidents
In To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause, historian Benjamin Nathans sheds light on how the protest movement reinvented itself ...
What was the first American album to be officially released in the USSR?
Rock music was placed under heavy restrictions in the USSR during the Cold War, but, in 1988, the regime allowed Bon Jovi to ...
Morning Star5d
Life ‘was better in Soviet times’
RUSSIA: Two-thirds of the citizens of ex-Soviet nations believe life was better under communism, a poll by the Sputnik website showed yesterday. In nine of the 11 countries polled, an average of 64 ...
The National Interest13d
The Jaw-Dropping Loss of Human Life in the Russia-Ukrainian War
It only took the Russian military and its supporting forces one week in the new year to surpass a mark that seemed ...
The Atlantic20d
Book Publishing in Russia
THE volume of books published in Soviet Russia has been growing in arithmetical ... one of the most perilous stages in the life of a book is when it has been set up but not yet run off on the ...
The Forward on MSN5dOpinion
As a new Trump administration begins, I’m looking to this Soviet Jewish dissident for guidance
If you're alarmed as I am by the new president's first actions in office, the Soviet dissident Alexander Esenin-Volpin has ...
The Associated Press on MSN12d
Queen Elizabeth II wasn't told about Soviet spy in her palace, declassified MI5 files show
LONDON — Queen Elizabeth II wasn’t told details of her long-time art adviser’s double life as a Soviet spy because palace ...
Yahoo News2d
Putin is repeating a Soviet-era mistake that tanked the Russian economy, Polish foreign minister says
Putin is repeating a Soviet-era mistake, which is ruining Russia's economy, Poland's foreign minister said. Speaking at Davos, Radoslaw Sikorski said Putin was overspending on the military and ...