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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 ...
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Putin Gets a Snub in the Vast Wine Cellars of a Former Soviet Republic
identified alcoholism as one of the Soviet Union’s most serious problems in 1985 and overzealous Communist Party officials ordered that vineyards in Moldova, Georgia and Crimea be destroyed.
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Confessions Of Britain’s Double Agents Who Spied For Soviet Union Released
He detailed his 1934 recruitment by a man named "Otto" at the suggestion of his wife, Lizzy, a Communist Party member ... who spied for the Soviet Union. The files, released on Tuesday by the ...