The Nation on MSN8d
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 MSN3d
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 Forward10d
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.
KTBS16d
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 ...