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When Classical Music Was a Cold War Battleground

When Classical Music Was a Cold War Battleground

Jonathan Rosenberg on the Time Shostakovich Came to America

By Jonathan Rosenberg | December 19, 2019

When You Find Out Someone Won a Prize Plagiarizing Your Work

When You Find Out Someone Won a Prize Plagiarizing Your Work

Laleh Khadivi on Who Owns a Story

By Laleh Khadivi | December 18, 2019

The Diplomatic Gambit That Opened Cuba Up to the World

The Diplomatic Gambit That Opened Cuba Up to the World

How Castro Unintentionally Galvanized a Generation of Cubans

By Victor Andres Triay | October 21, 2019

Reckoning with the Slave Empires of WWII

Reckoning with the Slave Empires of WWII

Concentration Camps and Gulags">James Walvin on the Forced Labor of
Concentration Camps and Gulags

By James Walvin | September 20, 2019

The Problem of Germany's Post-War Internal Refugees

The Problem of Germany's Post-War Internal Refugees

On the So-Called "Expellees" of Eastern Europe

By Peter Gatrell | September 20, 2019

Vera Wasowski, Larger Than Life in Postwar Warsaw

Vera Wasowski, Larger Than Life in Postwar Warsaw

On Being Jewish in Poland After WWII

By Maria Tumarkin | August 26, 2019

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Reading David Remnick 25 Years After the Fall of the Soviet Union

By Luke Harding | August 22, 2019

Gaze Upon These Heroic (and Very Good) Space Dogs!

By Martin Parr | July 19, 2019

Vasily Grossman and the Plight of Soviet Jewish Scientists

By Alexandra Popoff and Tatiana Dettmer | May 29, 2019

Doctor Zhivago to The World">The CIA Scheme That Brought <brDoctor Zhivago to The World">

Doctor Zhivago to The World">The CIA Scheme That Brought
Doctor Zhivago to The World

It Went All the Way to the Top

By Rebecca Renner | April 12, 2019

To Sit Beside Boris Fishman on an Airplane is to Behold the Riches of Russian Cooking

To Sit Beside Boris Fishman on an Airplane is to Behold the Riches of Russian Cooking

On the Soviet Union, Scarcity, and Satisfaction

By Boris Fishman | February 26, 2019

Read From Allen Ginsberg's Cuba Journals

Read From Allen Ginsberg's Cuba Journals

A Poet's Incantatory Descriptions of Havana

By Allen Ginsberg | December 14, 2018

The CIA-Soviet Culture Wars That Shaped American Art

The CIA-Soviet Culture Wars That Shaped American Art

Who's Afraid of Communist Writers?

By Juliana Spahr | November 16, 2018

The Polish Army Officer Who Conjured Proust in a Soviet Prison Camp

The Polish Army Officer Who Conjured Proust in a Soviet Prison Camp

On Józef Czapski's Wartime Lectures

By Eric Karpeles | November 7, 2018

I Was Almost Svetlana Alexievich's Translator

I Was Almost Svetlana Alexievich's Translator

Laura Esther Wolfson Falling Short of Literary Fame

By Laura Esther Wolfson | November 5, 2018

Masha Gessen: Inside the Gulags of the Soviet Union

Masha Gessen: Inside the Gulags of the Soviet Union

By the Time Stalin Died, 2.5 Million People Were Being Held in Camps

By Masha Gessen | March 26, 2018

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