A Secret Cable and a Clue to Where U.S.-Russia Relations Went Wrong
A newly declassified analysis argued against “shock therapy” for the former Soviet Union. The warning wasn’t heeded.
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The 2000s and the End of American Optimism
Over 35 years ago now, as the Soviet Union teetered on the brink of collapse and President George H.W. Bush worked to secure a peaceful conclusion to the Cold War, the political scientist Francis ...
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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 ...
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America Gets a Taste of Glasnost
Photo: Brandon Bell/Pool via Reuters To read the American press in recent months is to encounter a feeling reminiscent of the Soviet Union in 1988. At that time, the Communist Party was in the ...
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Kremlin disputes Trump’s remarks on Soviet role in World War II
Figures given by US president on Soviet losses during World War II do not correspond to official data from Russian historians ...
For Generations, Russia Was Syria’s Main Arms Supplier, That May Be Over
It already appears evident that the days of Russia serving as its leading arms supplier have come to an ignominious end.
Stirewalt: DeepSeek sharpens AI arms race — and MAGA tensions
The revelation that China’s DeepSeek has built a better artificial intelligence (AI) mousetrap than its much richer American ...