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How Soviet books brought literacy and socialist culture to the Third World

January 16, 2020 By Tony Pecinovsky

For millions of young readers in the Third World, Soviet and Eastern European literature was an inexpensive window into a world largely beyond reach.

HBO’s ‘Chernobyl’: Writer Craig Mazin’s imploding ideological superstructure

July 31, 2019 By Joel Wendland-Liu

Mazin chose to flog the dead horse of Cold War anti-Sovietism in order to make a statement about global climate change, but “truth” suffers in the process.

How could we ever bring ourselves to join the Communist Party?

July 22, 2019 By Victor Grossman

Victor Grossman, a Cold War exile from McCarthyism, responds to Kevin Baker's New York Times book review of "A Good American Family."

Let’s not leave the Soviet Union out of our D-Day history

June 6, 2019 By John Wojcik

World War II was won at battles like Stalingrad, long before the D-Day invasion.

Soviet socialism more popular than ever among Russians

January 4, 2019 By Gavin Mendel-Gleason

The USSR was thoroughly imperfect, but more Russians than ever are looking back fondly on the socialist system they lost.