The Nation on MSN3d
The Often Misunderstood History of the Soviet DissidentsIn To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause, historian Benjamin Nathans sheds light on how the protest movement reinvented itself ...
On this book’s first page, we learn two things. First, that the main character wishes that her cancer-stricken mother “would die soon”. Second, that the only plausible relief from the ...
Published on this day in 1973, "The Gulag Archipelago" drew on Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's experiences as a ...
The Forward on MSN3dOpinion
As a new Trump administration begins, I’m looking to this Soviet Jewish dissident for guidanceOn Monday, as I listened to President Donald Trump’s inauguration speech, I thought about Alexander Esenin-Volpin. It had ...
On November 3rd, 1957, the Soviet Union made history by launching the first living creature into Earth’s orbit: not a human, ...
Before the fall of the Iron Curtain and subsequent collapse of the Soviet Union during the 1989-1992 period, the nations of the Soviet Empire produced a fascinating range of cars, trucks ...
The Associated Press on MSN9d
Queen Elizabeth II wasn’t told about Soviet spy in her palace, declassified MI5 files showNewly declassified British documents show that Queen Elizabeth II wasn’t told details of her long-time art adviser's double ...
“Our lesson today is precisely a lesson about our visitor — his life in the Soviet Union, his altercation with state ...
Queen Elizabeth II wasn't told details of her long-time art adviser's double life as a Soviet spy because palace officials didn't want to add to her worries, newly declassified documents reveal ...
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