A Secret Cable and a Clue to Where U.S.-Russia Relations Went Wrong
A newly declassified analysis argued against “shock therapy” for the former Soviet Union. The warning wasn’t heeded.
Putin is repeating a Soviet-era mistake that tanked the Russian economy, Polish foreign minister says
Poland's foreign minister said Putin used to criticize the Soviet approach that helped bankrupt it, but now he's repeating ...
World champion Russian skaters on American Airlines jet built a new life as coaches in the US
Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov won a world championship title together in pairs skating in 1994 and narrowly missed out ...
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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 ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation4d
The controversial diary of a Finnish woman lured by the dream of Soviet Russia that turned into a nightmare
"The Soviet Union has such cultural influence in Finland ... grandmother's diary as she could see parallels with the recent Russian invasion of Ukraine "[I thought] if I'm not going to translate ...
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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 ...
Ukrainska Pravda on MSN2d
Russian grain exports set to plunge to "Soviet levels" in 2025 – Moscow Times
Russia is close to losing its leading position in the global grain market for the first time in many years, with grain ...
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Putin is repeating a Soviet-era mistake that tanked the Russian economy, Polish foreign minister says
Russian President Vladimir Putin is copying Soviet-era approaches ... the mistakes of Soviet leadership" in regards to his invasion of Ukraine. "The Soviet Union took on the West and lost," he said.
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The Sound of Utopia: Musicians in the Time of Stalin – Silencing tactics in the Soviet Union
The extent of the crimes against humanity committed by the entity known as the Soviet Union will never be known ... (Klavdiya Shulzhenko, “the Russian Vera Lynn”), or tasked with enforcing ...