The New Yorker5d
The Fraught U.S.-Soviet Search for Alien Life
During the Cold War, American and Soviet scientists embarked on an unprecedented quest to contact extraterrestrials. But ...
culture.pl2y
The Executed Renaissance: The Book that Saved Ukrainian Literature from Soviet Oblivion
The book, as one Soviet critic described (in an attempt to ridicule ... All of the above – along with the Polish-Ukrainian rapprochement in the decades following the collapse of the Soviet Union and ...
Suzanne Massie, ‘Reagan’s Window on the Soviet Union,’ Dies at 94
An author of books on Russia who spoke the language, she had no diplomatic experience but formed an unlikely bond with the ...
The Sound of Utopia: Musicians in the Time of Stalin – Silencing tactics in the Soviet Union
Nevertheless, The Sound of Utopia infuses a bleak subject with verve, inspiring admiration for musicians so dedicated to ...
The controversial diary of a Finnish woman lured by the dream of Soviet Russia that turned into a nightmare
A controversial memoir of a Finnish woman who migrated to Stalin’s Soviet Russia in the 1930s and escaped in 1941. Ninety years later, her granddaughter has translated the diary into English.
Creative Review4y
What everyday life looked like in the Soviet Union
In a new book published by Bloomsbury ... Atheism was an element of state ideology in the Soviet Union, and the propaganda materials used to promote it were spectacularly imaginative. This one manages ...
The Nation22d
The Often Misunderstood History of the Soviet Dissidents
The last third of the book examines this more mature dissident movement and its organizations, charting their paths not only in the Soviet Union but abroad as well. The story of this later phase ...
朝日新聞社4y
Manga on Soviet women in WWII shocks industry, wows readers
The manga is not set in Japan, but in the former Soviet Union. It was adapted from “The Unwomanly Face of War,” a book by 2015 Nobel Literature Prize-winning author Svetlana Alexievich.