USSR
Alexandra Kollontai: International Communist leader and fighter for women’s liberation
March 31, 2023As People’s Commissar for Social Affairs in Soviet Russia, Kollantai was the first woman in history to serve in a government Cabinet.
Read moreRéquiem por un sueño: a cien años de la fundación de la URSS
January 11, 2023Pertenezco a una generación privilegiada. Nací a finales de los años 60 en la URSS.
Read moreRequiem for a dream: 100 years after the founding of the USSR
January 11, 2023I belong to a privileged generation. I was born in the late 1960s in Kiev, the capital of a Soviet and socialist Ukraine, and I had the good fortune to grow up in the USSR.
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.
Read moreHBO’s ‘Chernobyl’: Writer Craig Mazin’s imploding ideological superstructure
July 31, 2019Mazin chose to flog the dead horse of Cold War anti-Sovietism in order to make a statement about global climate change, but “truth” suffers in the process.
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