USSR – People's World

Alexandra Kollontai: International Communist leader and fighter for women’s liberation

March 31, 2023 By Jenny Farrell

As People’s Commissar for Social Affairs in Soviet Russia, Kollantai was the first woman in history to serve in a government Cabinet.

Réquiem por un sueño: a cien años de la fundación de la URSS

January 11, 2023 By Oleg Yasinsky

Pertenezco a una generación privilegiada. Nací a finales de los años 60 en la URSS.

Requiem for a dream: 100 years after the founding of the USSR

January 11, 2023 By Oleg Yasinsky

I belong to a privileged generation. I was born in the late 1960s in Kiev, the capital of a Soviet and socialist Ukraine, and I had the good fortune to grow up in the USSR.

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.