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Mikhail Zygar’s latest book revisits the figures who defined the USSR’s last years and the turbulent decades that followed ...
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‘A cult of death’ — Former Soviet dissident on Russia and authoritarianism's global rise
In an authoritarian society, it’s free thinkers who are targeted by those in power. A book, a social media post, a private ...
The journalist sat down with Fifteen Minutes to talk about her career, including being declared an enemy of the Russian state, investigative reporting on KGB officials, and her deep love of reading ...
VOICES OF OCTOBER—Art and Literature in Soviet Russia—Joseph Freeman, Joshua Kunitz, Louis Lozowick—Vanguard ($4). A glance at the bibliography of 67 books appended to this volume will indicate how ...
The title of Elena Gorokhova's new memoir, "A Mountain of Crumbs," about growing up in the Soviet Union in the 1960s and '70s, comes from a game her grandmother invented to hide that she had almost no ...
A new book explores the legacy of the Soviet Union’s human spaceflight program Diane Tedeschi Yuri Gagarin’s status as an icon is evident in Russia’s many memorials for the pioneering cosmonaut, ...
Based on an immense body of scholarly literature, Hornsby’s narrative is broad rather than deep. His “sixties” begin in 1953, with the death of the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin. Stalin’s successor, ...
In his Main Street, U.S.S.R., Irving Levine relates the jokes told in Moscow by and about Russians. Some of them: A Russian, meeting an American tourist carrying a transistor radio, says: “We have ...
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