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September 29, 2022
Andre Pagliarini
Capitalism Triumphed in the Cold War, but Not by Making People Better Off
In the wake of economic crises, liberal democracies proved most adept at imposing austerity.
September 21, 2020
Jacob Silverman
Inside the FBI’s File on Soviet Poet-Dissident Yevgeny Yevtushenko
What the bureau’s decades-long surveillance of the international celebrity reveals about the U.S. government’s Cold War pathologies
March 11, 2019
Magazine
Kristen Ghodsee
How Regime Change Breeds Demagogues
Economic liberalization can be just as traumatic as military intervention.
December 10, 2018
Jennifer Wilson
The Trouble With Netflix’s New Cold War Thriller
“1983” imagines a terrifying alternate reality, but ignores the real dangers that Poland faces today.
March 27, 2018
Magazine
Jeet Heer
America’s Disappearing Foreign Policy
What’s happening to the GOP’s global affairs brain trust?
November 21, 2017
David Patrikarakos
Why Stalin Starved Ukraine
Anne Applebaum's new book tells of an atrocity and cover-up that shape today's politics.
September 1, 2016
Gal Beckerman
A Promised Land in the U.S.S.R.
Masha Gessen's book about a failed Soviet experiment asks searching questions about Jewish identity.
October 7, 2015
Sarah A. Topol
“Don't Shoot! I'll Put the Animals Back! Please!”
How a flash flood that killed hundreds of animals at the Tbilisi Zoo explains the failure of post-Soviet Georgia.
April 24, 2014
Sean Guillory
Is Russia Suffering From Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder?
April 21, 2014
Adam Michnik
While We Praise Ukrainian Restraint, Putin Builds His Neo-Soviet Empire
April 21, 2014
Linda Kinstler
Which Former Soviet State Could Be the Next Ukraine?
July 13, 2013
Christopher Caldwell
When Evil Was a Social System
The moral burdens of living under communist rule in Eastern Europe
July 3, 2013
Peter Savodnik
Moscow Is No Place for a Defector
In fleeing to Russia, Edward Snowden joins a long, unhappy litany of American dissidents
December 20, 2012
Anne Applebaum
Poland in the Darkness of World War II
November 8, 2009
Martin Peretz
Budapest, The Berlin Wall, and Iran: What Obama Does Not Grasp
January 20, 1992
Hendrik Hertzberg
What Life Was Like on Moscow’s Streets After the USSR Collapsed
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