The good guys lost the Cold War
1917, 1947, 1991: Three strikes – Imperialism is out!
So why, really, really, did the Soviet Union collapse?
Review Aftershock: A Journey into Eastern Broken Dreams
‘Aftershock Part II: Communism minus soviet power = nationalism
Review: Red Hangover: Legacies of 20th century Communism
Notes on Svetlana Alexievich, Secondhand Time: The last of the Soviets, an oral history (2016)
Grossman’s A Socialist Defector: Back in the GDR - you don’t know how lucky you are
Review of Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956
East or West? West is best. Konstantin Kisin, An immigrant's love letter to the West, 2022
Gorbachev’s legacy: Russia's 9/11 or Let a hundred weeds bloom
Israel as a Russian-Soviet invention
Russian history exposes media lies
Glasnost 1988: Historic moment for Iran and Russia
Russia in Ukraine: enemy or friend?
Russia-Ukraine vs Vietnam-Cambodia
Russia-Ukraine vs US civil war
Browder, Magnitsky and the Whole Damn Thing
So what's with Putin's anti-gay law?