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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 ...
The controversial diary of a Finnish woman lured by the dream of Soviet Russia that turned into a nightmare
A controversial memoir of a Finnish woman who migrated to Stalin’s Soviet Russia in the 1930s and escaped in 1941. Ninety ...
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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 ...
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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.
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Queen was not told aide was Soviet spy for years, UK records show
Queen Elizabeth II was not told officially for nearly a decade that one of her most senior courtiers had admitted he was a ...