USSR – Page 3 – People's World

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.

Designed in the USSR: Artifacts of a lost civilization

May 21, 2018 By Special to People’s World

Western materialism depends on a culture of disposability, bewildering choice, rapid obsolescence, and keeping up with the Joneses. By comparison, the Soviet system was admirably sustainable.

The October Revolution and the “National-Colonial Question”

October 17, 2017 By Bill Fletcher, Jr.

The October Revolution dared to pose questions that most revolutionaries in imperial states had avoided like the plague. But with the demise of the USSR, its lessons have been largely forgotten.