USSR
Réquiem 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.
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Requiem 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.
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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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HBO’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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How could we ever bring ourselves to join the Communist Party?
July 22, 2019Victor Grossman, a Cold War exile from McCarthyism, responds to Kevin Baker's New York Times book review of "A Good American Family."
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