Gorbachev’s legacy is complex, but perhaps his greatest achievement will be that he contributed so manifestly to a spirit of peace at a vital time in world history.
For the authorities in Kyiv, wartime shortages and near starvation in cities like Mariupol recall the dark past of the Holodomor.
The restoration of Shokay’s name and legacy should serve as an encouragement to further research the role of Central Asian individuals during Soviet times and to help separate fact from fiction.
Vincenc Kopeček explores the key issues at the core of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, the role of civil society, as well as his work on de facto states.
The Soviet Union ended quietly under Gorbachev, a man who sought peaceful change but lacked the means to preserve the Soviet state.
This chapter describes the author’s experiences becoming a professor in Canada during the 1980s and 1990s, and during the Soviet “putsch” in August 1991.
RFE/RL was an unusual place, especially the canteen where people of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe would gather together with German staff and British and American researchers.
This chapter describes the author’s travel, stories and experiences in Ukraine and the Soviet Union during the initial implementation of Glasnost.
This chapter describes the author’s travel, stories and experiences as a history professor and PhD student in Alberta, Canada.
In nuclear power, man had harnessed a monster. While it may be true that every form of power production has its dangers, nothing is as irrevocable as the effects of a nuclear accident.
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