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Life Inside The Führerbunker: Adolf Hitler’s Paranoid Final Few Days...
The streets of Berlin were devastated beyond recognition in some areas as 33-year-old photographer William Vandivert was led to the location of the former German chancellery buildings. Just days ...
Images of Ukraine, When Things Began to Fall Apart
The citizens photographed by Boris Mikhailov in the last days of the Soviet Union evoke laughter and sympathy in a show at ...
The New Yorker7d
The Fraught U.S.-Soviet Search for Alien Life
During the Cold War, American and Soviet scientists embarked on an unprecedented quest to contact extraterrestrials. But ...
On This Day: Soviet Union expels dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn
In 1974, the Soviet Union expelled dissident writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn. In 1983, a blaze engulfed a crowded movie theater ...
The controversial diary of a Finnish woman lured by the dream of Soviet Russia that turned into a nightmare
A controversial memoir of a Finnish woman who migrated to Stalin’s Soviet Russia in the 1930s and escaped in 1941. Ninety ...
The Nation24d
The Often Misunderstood History of the Soviet Dissidents
This particular “life” of the dissident movement culminated ... set into motion some of the processes leading to the Soviet Union’s collapse, its lack of attention to institution-building ...
Republican-American10d
A secret life after escaping Soviet invasion
After a grueling escape from Hungary following the 1956 Soviet invasion, her father arranges for friends to take her across ...
Suzanne Massie, ‘Reagan’s Window on the Soviet Union,’ Dies at 94
An author of books on Russia who spoke the language, she had no diplomatic experience but formed an unlikely bond with the ...
The Forward25d
As a new Trump administration begins, I’m looking to this Soviet Jewish dissident for guidance
Esenin-Volpin was “the first person in our life who spoke seriously about Soviet ... in the lead-up to the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the rights-based dissidents were demanding openness ...