A stunning juxtaposition of history and modern life, Transnistria exists as a time warp from before the Iron Curtain fell.
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Ukrainian poet Vasyl Stus died in a Soviet labor camp — new exhibition in Kyiv honors his life
While the Soviet authorities promoted their vision of ideological "universalism" — a homogenized identity that suppressed ...
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What Life in the Soviet Union Was Like
Here's the standard high school history class summary of the Soviet Union: The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a communist state from 1922 to 1991 and was a big rival of the US from ...
A BRITISH newspaper correspondent, recently returned from eighteen months in Moscow, describes the Soviet Union as a tangle of paradoxes. “Whatever one’s prejudices about the Soviet regime and the ...
Reason's December special issue marks the 30th anniversary of the collapse of the Soviet Union. This story is part of our exploration of the global legacy of that evil empire, and our effort to be ...
HAY-ON-WYE, Wales (AP) — In the view of Nobel literature laureate Svetlana Alexievich, Russia is taking refuge in ideas from its Soviet past, but this nostalgia collides with newer, darker forces. In ...
According to various Russian state media accounts, former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has died at the age of 91 after a long illness. Gorbachev played a pivotal role in ending the Cold War, and ...
Moscow Carrousel, by Eugene Lyons. Alfred Knopf. 355 pp. Readers of books on Soviet Russia will enjoy this book by Mr. Lyons. It is different from all the books hitherto written on Soviet life. It ...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — In a musty basement ...
How to write a laugh-out-loud funny book about the deprivations and rampant anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union, the challenges of emigrating to the U.S., sharing a breast cancer diagnosis with your ...
Mikhail Gorbachev, the final leader of the Soviet Union, died at the age of 91 of "a long and grave illness," Russian news agencies reported Tuesday. Gorbachev was one of the major political figures ...
FILE PHOTO: Former Soviet Union President Gorbachev speaks at a meeting with former US President Bush in Moscow LONDON (Reuters) - Lauded in the West as the man who helped bring down the Berlin Wall ...
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