Soviet Union
The death of the Soviet Union: Our Moscow correspondent reports in 1991
December 20, 2024On Dec. 25, 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as president of the Soviet Union, and the red hammer-and-sickle flag was lowered over the Kremlin in Moscow for the last time. The next day, Dec. 26, the USSR...
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New book opens imaginative doors to understanding Lenin’s global legacy
October 2, 2024The book’s strength lies in the fact that most contributors avoid clichés about Stalinism or self-pitying laments about what did or did not happen after the fateful October Revolution of 1917.
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‘Smoking gun’: Declassified memo proves Ethel Rosenberg was not a Soviet spy
September 12, 2024Sons urge Biden to issue a proclamation saying she was wrongly convicted and executed.
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Documents reveal Clinton forced Yeltsin into signing NATO-Russia pact
August 2, 2024At the end of the Cold War, the U.S. pledged not to expand NATO.
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Defeating fascism: The black, brown, and Red soldiers erased from history
June 14, 2024They say history is written by the winners, but apparently not all the winners count.
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