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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

 

Review: Catherine Belton, Putin’s people: How the KGB took back Russia and then took on the West (2020)

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?

 

Cat country: a parable of drugs, sex, revolution

Mao’s many legacies