Soviet Union

Why the Berlin Wall fell Why the Berlin Wall fell

Stephen Kotkin's fascinating "Uncivil Society" presents a revisionist account of Communism's failure
By Laura Miller Oct 14, 2009

  • Critic's Picks: The tragic twilight of Leon Trotsky

    A gripping new account captures the October Revolution's great intellectual facing doom (and feeding bunnies)
    By Andrew O'Hehir October 1, 2009

  • Rape in Berlin: Facing the truth

    Thousands of German women were sexually assaulted near the end of WW II. Brutal payback, a war crime or both?
    By Andrew O'Hehir July 17, 2009

  • The un-American way of life

    A controversial new history of Communism suggests that most everything we think we know about it is wrong
    By Andrew O'Hehir July 3, 2009

  • The man who shook the Kremlin

    Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who died this week, was instrumental in bringing the Soviet Union to its knees, and he never wavered from his belief in a writer's moral responsibility to truth and beauty.
    By Alexander Nazaryan August 5, 2008

  • Dancing with the New Tsars

    With their tricked-out yachts, trained servants and diamond-frosted toys, newly rich Russians have invaded London -- and thrown Britain's elite into a royal tizzy.
    By Clare Foges June 12, 2008

  • Who's the superpower now?

    As oil prices drain the U.S. of military power and influence, Russia is rising as a world force again.
    By Michael T. Klare May 12, 2008

  • America needs realists, not William Kristol

    If the New York Times wants true diversity on its Op-Ed pages, it should hire foreign policy realists, not ideologues.
    By Stephen M. Walt January 16, 2008

  • The raven has flown

    I've missed out on Halloween, my only chance to open my beak and screech a prophetic message, "Nevermore!"
    By Garrison Keillor November 7, 2007

  • Seizing American supremacy

    Throughout history, rising powers have overtaken superpowers. The United States will not prove an exception.
    By Dilip Hiro August 22, 2007

  • Boisterous Boris

    Bill Clinton, Billy Graham, Helen Thomas and others recall Russian President Yeltsin's confidence, rough charm and liberal ways with drink.
    By Dana Cook April 23, 2007

  • No time to heal

    Ford's posthumous condemnation of the Iraq war shows that the struggle for the soul of the GOP begun in the Nixon years is as relevant now as ever.
    By Sidney Blumenthal January 3, 2007

  • Mugged by reality

    Once the warrior queen of neoconservatism, Jeane Kirkpatrick died a critic of Bush's unilateralism. Her death illuminates the conflicting legacies of the movement she helped found.
    By Sidney Blumenthal December 14, 2006

  • A vote for more cooked intelligence?

    Little-known documents link Rumsfeld replacement Robert Gates with the kind of trumped-up reports that unleashed the Iraq war.
    By Mark Benjamin December 4, 2006

  • I was a Commie rock star from Colorado

    A fascinating biography of Dean Reed, the "Johnny Cash of Communism," tells a particularly strange tale of East meeting West.
    By Sarah Goldstein July 14, 2006

  • The Velvet Revolution -- on the field

    As the World Cup approaches, an English writer recalls when Czech football, too, threw off its shackles.
    By Tim Adams June 2, 2006

  • The rape of Berlin

    An anonymous diary from 1945 reminds us of the horrific crimes Soviet liberators committed against millions of German women.
    By Jonathan Shainin August 18, 2005

  • Stalin's lies, our lies

    Ken Kalfus' first novel explores how untruths spread throughout the Soviet Union -- and the human heart.
    By Laura Miller February 6, 2003

  • "A dangerous step backwards"

    Why has President Bush cut funding to combat nuclear proliferation in Russia, and will Congress be able to bring it back?
    By Fiona Morgan May 16, 2001

  • Culture of death

    A historian's view of 20th century Russia shows the traumatic legacy of totalitarian terror.
    By Charles Taylor May 7, 2001

  • Breaking down the Skoda

    A telltale madras golf hat, a '78 Soviet jalopy and the bloodcurdling scream of a Bulgarian named Stipe.
    By Jay Speiden April 29, 2000

  • From Russia with guns

    A glossy weapons catalog offers wimpy nations a chance to buy new respect from their neighbors.
    By Ken Silverstein April 3, 2000

  • If these walls could address large crowds

    Sharon Stone's just like a lesbian, except not a lesbian; Camryn Manheim's not one either. And Harrison Ford, while not a lesbian, is terrified of public speaking. Go figure. Plus! Renie Zellweger as Bridget Jones? V.v. annoying!
    By Amy Reiter March 6, 2000

  • Shooting truth in the back of the head

    Here's what the Russian government doesn't want you to know about the war in Chechnya.
    By Owen Matthews January 31, 2000

  • A sexy librarian named Natasha and other surprises of the New Russia

    I journeyed 5,000 miles to learn that God is in the weiners and William S. Burroughs is a cult star.
    By Rolf Potts November 13, 1999
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