Soviet Union
‘Agent Sonya,’ a biography of intrepid antifa spy Ursula Kuczynski
February 16, 2021For a couple of decades in the 1930s and 1940s, she was among the USSR’s most important windows to the outside world.
Read moreTurkey accused of shipping jihadist mercenaries into Azerbaijan-Armenia war
October 29, 2020Affiliated to al-Qaida, fighters of the Turkistan Islamic Party seek to establish a caliphate called East Turkestan to replace China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. Now, Turkey has apparently shipped them into the middle of the Armenia-Azerbaijan war.
Read moreBelarus overthrow campaign aims to destroy last traces of Soviet socialism
September 3, 2020After 1991, Belarus took a path that was perhaps the closest to the old economic system of the Soviet Union. This made the nation a bedrock of stability while the other former Soviet states were convulsed...
Read moreSurvivor of Nazis’ Leningrad siege now helps needy during pandemic
May 7, 202080-year-old Galina Yakovleva drives a white minivan every day through the city on a one-woman charitable mission for the elderly and needy families.
Read moreHow Soviet books brought literacy and socialist culture to the Third World
January 16, 2020For millions of young readers in the Third World, Soviet and Eastern European literature was an inexpensive window into a world largely beyond reach.
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