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Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:10:00 PDT By Laura Miller Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2009/10/14/uncivil_society/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2009/10/14/uncivil_society/index.html?source=rss Stephen Kotkin's fascinating "Uncivil Society" presents a revisionist account of Communism's failure By Andrew O'Hehir Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/critics_picks/2009/10/01/trotsky/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/critics_picks/2009/10/01/trotsky/index.html?source=rss A gripping new account captures the October Revolution's great intellectual facing doom (and feeding bunnies) By Andrew O'Hehir Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2009/07/17/berlin/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2009/07/17/berlin/index.html?source=rss Thousands of German women were sexually assaulted near the end of WW II. Brutal payback, a war crime or both? By Andrew O'Hehir Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/review/2009/07/03/communism/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2009/07/03/communism/index.html?source=rss A controversial new history of Communism suggests that most everything we think we know about it is wrong By Alexander Nazaryan Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2008/08/05/solzhenitsyn/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2008/08/05/solzhenitsyn/index.html?source=rss 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 Clare Foges Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/06/12/new_tsars/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/06/12/new_tsars/index.html?source=rss 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 Michael T. Klare Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/05/12/russian_oil/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/05/12/russian_oil/index.html?source=rss As oil prices drain the U.S. of military power and influence, Russia is rising as a world force again. By Stephen M. Walt Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/01/16/realism/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/01/16/realism/index.html?source=rss If the New York Times wants true diversity on its Op-Ed pages, it should hire foreign policy realists, not ideologues. By Garrison Keillor Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/keillor/2007/11/07/raven/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/keillor/2007/11/07/raven/index.html?source=rss I've missed out on Halloween, my only chance to open my beak and screech a prophetic message, "Nevermore!" By Dilip Hiro Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/08/22/american_decline/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/08/22/american_decline/index.html?source=rss Throughout history, rising powers have overtaken superpowers. The United States will not prove an exception. By Dana Cook Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/04/23/yeltsin/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/04/23/yeltsin/index.html?source=rss Bill Clinton, Billy Graham, Helen Thomas and others recall Russian President Yeltsin's confidence, rough charm and liberal ways with drink. By Sidney Blumenthal Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/01/03/gerald_ford/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/01/03/gerald_ford/index.html?source=rss 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 Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2006/12/14/jeane_kirkpatrick/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2006/12/14/jeane_kirkpatrick/index.html?source=rss 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 Mark Benjamin Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/12/04/robert_gates/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/12/04/robert_gates/index.html?source=rss Little-known documents link Rumsfeld replacement Robert Gates with the kind of trumped-up reports that unleashed the Iraq war. By Sarah Goldstein Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/review/2006/07/14/nadelson/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2006/07/14/nadelson/index.html?source=rss A fascinating biography of Dean Reed, the "Johnny Cash of Communism," tells a particularly strange tale of East meeting West. By Tim Adams Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2006/06/02/adams/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2006/06/02/adams/index.html?source=rss As the World Cup approaches, an English writer recalls when Czech football, too, threw off its shackles. By Jonathan Shainin Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/review/2005/08/18/berlin/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2005/08/18/berlin/index.html?source=rss An anonymous diary from 1945 reminds us of the horrific crimes Soviet liberators committed against millions of German women. By Laura Miller Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/review/2003/02/06/kalfus/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2003/02/06/kalfus/index.html?source=rss Ken Kalfus' first novel explores how untruths spread throughout the Soviet Union -- and the human heart. By Fiona Morgan Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2001/05/16/loose_nukes/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2001/05/16/loose_nukes/index.html?source=rss Why has President Bush cut funding to combat nuclear proliferation in Russia, and will Congress be able to bring it back? By Charles Taylor Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/review/2001/05/07/merridale/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2001/05/07/merridale/index.html?source=rss A historian's view of 20th century Russia shows the traumatic legacy of totalitarian terror. By Jay Speiden Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/travel/feature/2000/04/29/stipe/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/travel/feature/2000/04/29/stipe/index.html?source=rss A telltale madras golf hat, a '78 Soviet jalopy and the bloodcurdling scream of a Bulgarian named Stipe. By Ken Silverstein Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/04/03/arms/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/04/03/arms/index.html?source=rss A glossy weapons catalog offers wimpy nations a chance to buy new respect from their neighbors. By Amy Reiter Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/people/col/reit/2000/03/06/npmon/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/people/col/reit/2000/03/06/npmon/index.html?source=rss 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 Owen Matthews Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/01/31/chechnya/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/01/31/chechnya/index.html?source=rss Here's what the Russian government doesn't want you to know about the war in Chechnya. By Rolf Potts Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/travel/diary/pott/1999/11/13/siberia5/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/travel/diary/pott/1999/11/13/siberia5/index.html?source=rss I journeyed 5,000 miles to learn that God is in the weiners and William S. Burroughs is a cult star.