The Nation on MSN6d
The Often Misunderstood History of the Soviet Dissidents
In To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause, historian Benjamin Nathans sheds light on how the protest movement reinvented itself ...
TheCollector on MSN17h
Was the USSR a Colonial Power?
The idea of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics (USSR) as a colonial power remains a contentious issue. During the Cold ...
The Forward8d
As a new Trump administration begins, I’m looking to this Soviet Jewish dissident for guidance
After all, if Alexander Esenin-Volpin could remember that they mattered in the 1950s in the Soviet Union, then maybe we can remember it today — and tomorrow, and for the next four years — too.
civilserviceworld.com11d
The civil servant who spied for the Soviet Union for 15 years – MI5 files declassified
The National Archives has released declassified MI5 files, including the confession of a civil servant who worked in the ...
AI Alarabiya13d
Queen Elizabeth was not told aide was Soviet spy for years, records show
He was questioned several times after Maclean and Burgess fled to the Soviet Union in the 1950s. But without a confession, he was allowed to keep his position at the heart of the British ...