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Who was Juliet Stuart Poyntz? Some early Cold War history in new book

June 14, 2021 By Tony Pecinovsky

In the world of Red Scare anti-communist narratives, few have endured as long or been as impactful as the story of Juliet Stuart Poyntz.

Prokofiev’s ‘Peter and the Wolf’: A beloved piece of music for children

April 19, 2021 By Jenny Farrell

This musical fairy tale, just under half an hour in length, is a surprisingly successful example of Socialist Realism, the newly promoted Soviet esthetic of the 1930s.

Afghanistan’s socialist years: The promising future killed off by U.S. imperialism

April 15, 2021 By Marilyn Bechtel

From 1978 to 1992, Afghanistan made great strides in education, health care, economic development, and women's liberation - despite intense fighting with U.S.-backed fundamentalist militia forces.

‘Agent Sonya,’ a biography of intrepid antifa spy Ursula Kuczynski

February 16, 2021 By Eric A. Gordon

For a couple of decades in the 1930s and 1940s, she was among the USSR’s most important windows to the outside world.

Turkey accused of shipping jihadist mercenaries into Azerbaijan-Armenia war

October 29, 2020 By Steve Sweeney

Affiliated 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.