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Ukraine’s fascist-backed government erasing Red Army from history
December 23, 2020Authorities in Lviv are dismantling the city’s Monument of Glory, a memorial to Red Army soldiers who died fighting the Nazi invasion.
Read moreThe Siege of Leningrad: Shostakovich and the airbrushing of history
June 26, 2019The Siege of Leningrad was recorded not only in books, but also in music.
Read more“New Left” in old age: Lebowitz’s ‘Contradictions of Real Socialism’
May 9, 2019The 1960s New Left's populist fantasies are still not what's needed to build real socialism.
Read moreDissident voices in declining powers: Two exhibitions at the Wende Museum
March 14, 2019Viewers may have to set some of their biases outside the door and expect to be challenged by what they see at the Wende.
Read moreThe nuclear-age ‘War of Nerves’ and ‘Red Shoes’ politics of dance
October 18, 2018The USSR may be long gone, but the devotion it poured into culture and the arts in still on view worldwide.
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