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The Soviets sent most of its intellectuals to remote gulags. Decades later, those areas became more prosperous
A new study reveals that regions near Soviet GULAG camps are more prosperous today, thanks to the unintended legacy of ...
Jimmy Carter deserves some credit for winning the Cold War
The legacy of Jimmy Carter's administration includes key roles in countering the Soviets and Islamist extremists in the ...
Music Acts Like Pink Floyd and Donna Summers Banned from Soviet Union in the '80s? Here's the Truth
What do the Village People and KISS have in common, apart from elaborate stage costumes? Both acts were allegedly banned from ...
Historian explains how economics research stumbled under Soviet regime, while mathematics thrived
Political and ideological barriers can shape the progress of academic disciplines, warns Ivan Boldyrev. In a paper appearing ...
Foreign Affairs1d
From Incarceration to Repatriation: German Prisoners of War in the Soviet Union
Grunewald significantly enhances understandings of the fate of Germans captured by the Soviet Union during World War II.
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Jimmy Carter helped dismantle Soviet Union with focus on human rights
Jimmy Carter was a dark horse Democratic presidential candidate with little national recognition when he beat Republican ...
Smithsonian Magazine11d
Discover the Story Behind a Legendary Exposé of the Brutality of the Soviet Union
Published on this day in 1973, "The Gulag Archipelago" drew on Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's experiences as a ...
The cruelties of the Soviet Union as you’ve never read them before
Karl Schlögel’s dizzyingly excellent essays in The Soviet Century cover everything from the freezing Gulag to communist ...