USSR
How Soviet books brought literacy and socialist culture to the Third World
January 16, 2020For millions of young readers in the Third World, Soviet and Eastern European literature was an inexpensive window into a world largely beyond reach.
Read moreHBO’s ‘Chernobyl’: Writer Craig Mazin’s imploding ideological superstructure
July 31, 2019Mazin 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.
Read moreHow could we ever bring ourselves to join the Communist Party?
July 22, 2019Victor Grossman, a Cold War exile from McCarthyism, responds to Kevin Baker's New York Times book review of "A Good American Family."
Read moreLet’s not leave the Soviet Union out of our D-Day history
June 6, 2019World War II was won at battles like Stalingrad, long before the D-Day invasion.
Read moreSoviet socialism more popular than ever among Russians
January 4, 2019The USSR was thoroughly imperfect, but more Russians than ever are looking back fondly on the socialist system they lost.
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