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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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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 ...
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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 ...
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Former Soviet Union
The Latvian government demolished a Cold War-era monument celebrating the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany in the Second World War on Thursday—leading to celebrations by many Latvians who ...
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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 ...