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Articles with keyword "Soviet Union"

Georges Collinet broadcasting "Bonjour L'Afrique from Washington, D.C.

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From Maxi Voom Voom to Afropop

By Dan Scheuerman

Georges Collinet was a rock ’n’ roll-playing, Cold War DJ; now he's an elder stateman of world music.

Plaque with face of Stefan Zeromski

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Żeromski the Magnificent!

By Steve Moyer

The novelist who captured Polish life even as it was changing

Philip Mosely with Fred Stolling

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The Cold War’s Organization Man

By David C. Engerman

How Philip Mosely helped Soviet Studies moderate U.S. foreign policy.

Image of Herbert Hoover

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The Politics of Food

By Ronald Radosh

How America kept Russia from starving.

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Akhmatova's Boswell

By Steve Moyer

From the early 1980s until around 2000, there was a publishing explosion of Russian diaries and memoirs recalling Stalin’s Terror and World War II.

Image of bench/ step-stool from former East Germany

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California's Cold War Museum

By David C. Engerman

All things communist -- from the Berlin Wall to Soviet tchotchkes -- find a home at the Wende.