Want to resist Trump? Take a page from the Soviet dissident playbook
They showed that a small number of activists can have an outsized impact even under circumstances that, in every imaginable ...
He’s bringing back the real food of Ukraine
Activist, chef, and cookbook author Yevhen Klopotenko is peeling away layers of Soviet-era influence on the table.
What is the history of the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan?
Armenia and Azerbaijan were locked in conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh for nearly four decades after the Soviet Union they were ...
The American Conservative6mon
When Soviet Dissidents Disappoint
A new history of the Soviet dissident movement tries to make ... and involved many of the same people as, the dissident movement. These NGOs focused on liberal issues familiar to their Western ...
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Putin hails Soviet army for ending 'total evil' of Auschwitz
Teaching of history in the Soviet Union and Russia has always focused ... Great Patriotic War than on Nazi extermination of Jewish people. And aspects such as the secret Nazi-Soviet pact ...
The Conversation5d
Will the U.S. collapse like the Soviet Union did?
“You’re next,” said a Russian historian I interviewed in 1993 about the Soviet Union’s collapse in late 1991. I was an American student in St. Petersburg, and he was referring to the ...
The Polygon People
The story and legacy of the vast Soviet nuclear test site in Kazakhstan, The Polygon ...
Deccan Herald9dOpinion
Will Trump leave US society the way Gorbachev left the Soviet Union?
Most Americans live hand-to-mouth, even if their lives are better than in developing countries. When Trump takes away their ...
Little Rock Public Radio16d
A music producer found an old record. It opened up a world of Soviet-era disco
The discovery of one old record is breathing new life into a genre of Soviet-era music that hasn't been widely heard overseas for decades.