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“New Left” in old age: Lebowitz’s ‘Contradictions of Real Socialism’

May 9, 2019 By John Womack

The 1960s New Left's populist fantasies are still not what's needed to build real socialism.

Dissident voices in declining powers: Two exhibitions at the Wende Museum

March 14, 2019 By Eric A. Gordon

Viewers may have to set some of their biases outside the door and expect to be challenged by what they see at the Wende.

The nuclear-age ‘War of Nerves’ and ‘Red Shoes’ politics of dance

October 18, 2018 By Eric A. Gordon

The USSR may be long gone, but the devotion it poured into culture and the arts in still on view worldwide.

The Russian Revolutions: 1905 and 1917

December 6, 2017 By Beatrice Lumpkin

Lenin said 1905 saw “the temporary defeat of the Russian Revolution.” Just like that time, the 1990s defeat of socialism will also prove temporary.

Considering the Soviet experience: Thoughts from an American

December 6, 2017 By Ben Sears

Were “crimes” committed? We are regularly reminded that the answer is “yes, certainly.” But if that is all we learn, we risk losing other valuable parts of the last century’s record.