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Years ago, Vladimir Kanevsky’s floral sculptures started turning up in Manhattan’s most elegant living rooms. Now his work is ...
A spectre is haunting Macalester’s campus — the spectre of Sovietism. And I’m weirded out. Let me be clear — I think the ...
Now that battle was over and red flags upon which was emblazoned the hammer and sickle emblem of the Soviet Union hung from the ruined buildings, replacing the swastika of the Third Reich which ...
In the Soviet Union, this control was not limited to symbolic gestures – it reshaped the entire academic system. Under Josef Stalin, academic survival depended less on scholarly merit than on ...
Two decades ago, Russian American anthropologist Alexei Yurchak coined the term “hypernormalisation” to describe the absurd and surreal reality of the Soviet Union during its final two decades.
Talks held between Gandhi and Gorbachev resulted in the Soviet Union providing India a credit ... the Indian Tricolour and Soviet hammer and sickle were raised, and an orchestra arranged to ...
It's a church US intelligence said helped overthrow a government, invited Donald Trump to speak at its events and saw former Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet its founder. The Unification ...