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Majority of Russians Regret Soviet Collapse, Poll Says
The number of Russians who regret the collapse of the Soviet Union is the highest in nearly a decade, according to an independent Levada Center poll published Monday. In polls taken since 1992, an average two-thirds of respondents said they lamented the collapse of the USSR, peaking at 75 percent in 2000 and dipping to 49 percent in 2012.
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'Youngest Soviet Defector' Tells His Tale Nearly 40 Years Later
He lives the life of an average American today, but nearly four decades ago as a child Volodymyr Polovchak whipped up a Cold War storm by refusing to return from the United States to the Soviet Union.
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Communist Dissonance
How an ACLU founder became an apologist for Soviet tyranny. By Matthew Harwood.
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The World the Cold War Built
A new book says the conflict began in the late 19th century and subsumed even World War II as our defining event. By Leon Hadar.
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‘It’s got me’ – lonely death of Soviet scientist poisoned by novichok
Before former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia collapsed on a park bench in Salisbury on 4 March, the only other person confirmed to suffer the effects of novichok was a young Soviet chemical weapons scientist.
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In 1983, American Provocations — and Soviet Fear — Drove the World Closer to Nuclear War
At a time when many in Moscow have again come to view the United States as an implacable foe, renewed examination of this period could yield important lessons for today. By Richard Purcell.
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The Overlooked Wonders of Soviet-Era Industrial Design
Space-themed vacuum cleaners, and more.
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Marxists Look Back on the Russian Revolution
Two new books find committed leftists wrangling with the grisly legacy of October 1917. By J.P. O'Malley.
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Agent Kristeva
The covert and overt sins of a celebrated scholar. By Kevin Williamson.
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Episode 4: What Dictators Don't Know
The Deadly Isms
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My Mother’s Brilliant Career in Soviet Culture
In the morning, she wrapped the four limp fish in damp sheets of Soviet Culture and stuffed them into an oilskin hamper. It leaked, but the trolleybus taking us to the airport for her flight to Leningrad was empty at that early hour, so no one noticed. She carried the hamper in one hand and her suitcase in the other, while I bore her portable typewriter. The fish delivered, the defense of her thesis was a breeze. Mother passed with flying colors.
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Russian museum discovers secret order to destroy Gulag data
A museum studying Soviet prison camps has discovered a secret Russian order from 2014 instructing officials to destroy data on prisoners – a move it said “could have catastrophic consequences for studying the history of the camps”. Up to 17 million people were sent to the Gulag, the notorious Soviet prison camp system, in the 1930s and 1940s. At least 5 million of them were convicted on false testimony. The prison population in the labour camps peaked at 2 million people.
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Forty-Five Things I Learned in the Gulag
Varlam Shalamov claimed not to have learned anything from the Gulag except how to wheel a loaded barrow. But one of his fragmentary writings, dated 1961, tells us more.
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Mourning Joe
In many ways, Stalin is key to understanding Georgia’s political climate. By Jessica Loudis.
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“Every Day I Wake Up in a Strange Land”: Remembering the Russian Poet Naum Korzhavin
Some of the most searing poems by Korzhavin, who has died, at the age of ninety-two, focus on his decision to go into exile, to America, in the seventies. By Masha Gessen.
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Czechs still shiver from Soviet 1968 invasion
Czechs worry that too many have forgotten the 1968 Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia.
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CIA declassifies cache of Soviet jokes compiled during the Cold War
A cache of Soviet jokes that was compiled by CIA agents during the Cold War has been released among a cache of declassified documents. All the jokes were told between Soviets but picked up by CIA operatives before being relayed back to Washington. The list was addressed to the Deputy Director of the CIA but it is believed to have been circulated among senior White House officials.
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For 11 Years, the Soviet Union Had No Weekends
The experiment of a 'continuous week' was shift work, on a colossal scale. And it failed.
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The Remains Of Stalin’s Dead Road
In Russia’s arctic wilderness, the remnants of one of the Soviet Union’s most tragic gulag projects now lies largely forgotten.
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Postcards From Big Brother: The Curious Propaganda of a Brutal Soviet Era
Compared with the sophisticated technology Russia employed to meddle in the 2016 U.S. election, the Soviet propaganda in Brutal Bloc Postcards, published by FUEL Design and Publishing, seems downright quaint. Many of these postcards, published by governments of the U.S.S.R. between the 1960s and 1980s, depict the bland, 1960s five-story concrete-paneled apartments known as “khrushchyovka” as if to say, “Look at the modern wonder of collective worker housing!”
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