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In the 1950s, some ingenious Russians, hungry for jazz, boogie woogie, rock n roll, and other music forbidden in the Soviet Union, devised a way to record banned bootlegged music on exposed X-ray film...
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On February 16, 2024 Russian dissident Alexei Navalny died under unexplained circumstances in a penal colony in the Russian Arctic just weeks before the election that enthroned Vladimir Putin for...
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Studio 360 looks back at a country that doesn’t exist any more — the Soviet Union. Kurt Andersen and the writer Svetlana Boym expose the art that was made in secret during the Communist regimes, and...
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In 1983, 100 million Americans watched an ABC made-for-tv movie called The Day After, depicting the immediate fallout from a nuclear exchange between the US and the Soviet Union. Tensions between the...
View ArticlePutin And Ukraine As Seen By The Great-Granddaughter Of Soviet Leader Nikita...
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View ArticleThe Death of Historical Memory in Russia
Russia's Memorial International maintained an archive whose purpose was to amass and preserve the crimes against humanity committed in the Soviet Union. On March 3rd it was closed down by order of the...
View ArticlePutin's Attack on Russia's Historical Memory
We learned this week that after months of wrangling with former president Trump’s lawyers, the National Archives received 15 boxes containing legally protected documents. The presidential records act...
View ArticleAverell Harriman
Averell Harriman, diplomat, politician and businessman, arguably held more government assignments than any American in the country's history, including Ambassadorships to the Soviet Union and the...
View Article'Putin's People'
Reuters investigative correspondent Catherine Belton discusses her book, Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took On the West. This segment is guest-hosted by Ilya Marritz.
View Article353- From Bombay with Love
From the 1950s right up to its collapse, people in the Soviet Union were completely infatuated with Indian cinema. India and The Soviet Union had completely different politics, languages, and cultures....
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In the early 1950s, teenage students in Lake County, Indiana, got up from their desks, marched down the halls and lined up at stations. There, fingers were pricked, blood was tested and the teenagers...
View ArticleNATO's Struggle to Define Its Future
It’s been 70 years since the birth of North Atlantic Treaty Organization. To commemorate the anniversary, leaders of the 29 member countries are gathering in London this week. But instead of pomp and...
View Article353- From Bombay with Love
From the 1950s right up to its collapse, people in the Soviet Union were completely infatuated with Indian cinema. India and The Soviet Union had completely different politics, languages, and cultures....
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