Soviet Union
Survivor 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.
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How 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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Second World, Second Sex: How the socialist women of the East shaped feminism
September 5, 2019The world’s workers in general—and women in particular—benefited from the “ideological tension” created by state socialism and its allies in the Third World.
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When Lenin spoke to American workers
April 22, 2019April 22, 2019 marks the 149th birthday of V.I. Lenin, leader of the Russian Revolution.
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Injecting life into socialism: Post-1956 Hungarian art and Soviet flower power
July 12, 2018If you have received opinions, best leave them at the door when you visit the Wende Museum of the Cold War.
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