Soviet Union
The world is a better place because Lenin lived
January 19, 2024100 years after the Russian Revolution leader’s death, CPUSA Co-chair Joe Sims discusses his enduring influence.
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A monument to Lenin: Sourcing a well-known poem by Bertolt Brecht
January 19, 2024The story of how carpet weavers in Turkestan honored Lenin by helping themselves survive.
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As it happened 1924: LENIN IS DEAD
January 19, 2024100 years after the death of Lenin, read how the Daily Worker reported the news at the time.
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Chinese socialism has now officially outlasted the Soviet Union
November 30, 2023A landmark in socialist history passed largely unremarked this month.
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A Soviet Jewish delegation to America experiences the John F. Kennedy assassination
November 20, 2023Leading the group was the Soviet Yiddish poet Aron Vergelis, who was editor of Sovetish Heymland (Soviet Homeland), the primary literary magazine in Yiddish in the USSR.
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