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 ...
Phys.org

Will the US collapse like the Soviet Union did?

"You're next," said a Russian historian I interviewed in 1993 about the Soviet Union's collapse in late 1991. I was an American student in St. Petersburg, and he was referring to the United States.
The Kyiv Independent on MSNOpinion

‘A cult of death’ — Former Soviet dissident on Russia and authoritarianism's global rise

In an authoritarian society, it’s free thinkers who are targeted by those in power. A book, a social media post, a private ...
New York Post

Kasparov: In the USSR, I saw how Mamdani’s socialism can destroy a country

Like a contagious disease, socialism comes roaring back when people have forgotten the terrible damage it did the last time it ravaged a society. This time, it’s Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani’s ...