THE SCOPE OF contemporary US dominance is unparalleled in human history. America has 752 military facilities in 130 countries, some of them until recently part of the Soviet empire. What the American ...
Like g re at Soviet enterprises of the future, the city is built on the bones of peasant-slaves ... His son and heir Tsarevich Alexis is hardly the first scion of such a dynamic colossus to have been ...
“Back in the Soviet Union era, Armenia was really very ... around the self-ruling island owing to its semiconductor colossus. “So having a strong economy, producing certain things that the ...
A form of modern realism imposed in Russia by Stalin following his rise to power after the death of Lenin in 1924, characterised in painting by rigorously optimistic pictures of Soviet life painted in ...
Viv Groskop gathers some of the best Soviet satire and proletariat punchlines. When I was interviewing Russians for the documentary It's Just a Joke, Comrade: 100 Years of Russian Satire ...