The Nation on MSN11d
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 ...
World Socialist Web Site4y
The Collapse of the Soviet Union
the end of the Soviet Union and its autarkic national economy foreshadowed the transformation or collapse of all parties and institutions based on national economic regulation. The ICFI explained ...
Hosted on MSN15d
The Soviet Union’s Speed Demon – The TU-114’s Legacy Explained
Join us as we look back at the TU-114, the record-breaking Soviet turboprop that once connected Moscow to distant cities like Havana and Tokyo. Originally derived from the TU-95 bomber ...
THE WEEK1y
Communism explained in 60 seconds: ideas that changed the world
By the 1980s, Soviet Russia’s economy was in tatters, and “many people were considerably poorer than the poorest people in the capitalist West”, explained ... the Soviet Union turned its ...
The Forward on MSN11dOpinion
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 ...
Putin explained why Andrei Gromyko was called "Mr. No"
Russian President Vladimir Putin explained why Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko was called "Mr. No" in the West.
UPI9y
Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia
Soviets claim Czechs requested occupation MOSCOW, Aug. 21, 1968 (UPI) - Soviet officials, speaking through the news agency Tass, today explained ... called on the Soviet Union and its Communist ...