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Soviet Union was really weird - here's why

The Soviet Union wasn’t just authoritarian — it was structurally bizarre. Daily life blended advanced science with ...

Exit Stalin — reforms and repression in the postwar, pre-collapse USSR

Mark Smith’s impressive history surveys life in the Soviet Union, and its advances and failures from Khrushchev to Gorbachev ...
New Statesman

Will we ever forget David Bowie?

Mark B Smith’s Exit Stalin tells the history of a Soviet society largely without protest, without violent repression, without ...
Richland Source

Soviet Union prison camp survivor celebrates 100th birthday in Ashland

In 100 years of life, Dorothea Schade survived a Soviet gulag after World War II and immigrated to America for a better life.
The Nation

Sovietology and the End of the Cold War

The Cold War and its effects. Remarks delivered at the Jordan Center Workshop, New York University, November 1, 2024. My current reading of what Russia has become is based on my own experiences as an ...