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The Soviet Union aspired to a dream yet to be realized
October 30, 2017Socialism in the U.S. will be a society of free individuals who will have the opportunity to master the wonders of science and technology and live in peace and equality.
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Pudovkin’s “The End of St. Petersburg” to screen in L.A.
October 25, 2017This screening of The End of St. Petersburg is the ninth in a monthly film series celebrating the 100th anniversary of the February and October 1917 Revolutions in Russia.
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Russian Revolution at 100: Time to challenge capitalism again
October 13, 2017The events of that October night in Russia a hundred years ago are not going to be replicated, but the experiences of the world’s first socialist country are still relevant.
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Statues fall too in Ukraine, as fascists erase Soviet past
September 11, 2017Ukraine's Communist Party leader Petro Symonenko speaks to Ben Chacko about the wave of historical destruction engulfing his country.
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Book review: Moshe Lewin’s “The Soviet Century”
September 3, 2013About Stalinism, Lewin strongly makes the point that while Stalin's tenure from the mid 1920s to the early 1950s represented a significant portion of Soviet history it did not represent all of it.
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