The Former Soviet Bloc

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Romanian workers studying. Source: Tiraspol History Museum. Photo: Liberation School.

Typographers’ revolt: The day Bucharest stood still

Patricia Gorky

January 8, 2019

December 2018 marked the 100-year anniversary of the slaughter of striking typographers and workers of Bucharest, Romania. More than 15,000 men, women and children — workers from all factories –– filled the streets on Dec. ...

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Rioters face off with Ukrainian riot police, a shield displaying white pride and Nazi logos. Photo: Sergei Supinsky / AFP / Getty Images

The roots of fascism in Ukraine: From Nazi collaboration to ...

Sam Shipman

January 4, 2018

In recent years Ukraine has popped up in the mainstream media due to explosive political developments. Starting with the “Orange Revolution” in November of 2004, to the Euromaidan coup d’etat that was carried out by ...

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A woman walks by a poster in the Crimean port city of Sevastopol

Crimea Referendum: the hidden truth behind the U.S.-Russia rivalry

Brian Becker

March 17, 2014

The same militarists who criminally invaded and bombed sovereign Iraq are now crying very big crocodile tears about respect for sovereignty in Ukraine.

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Gay rights activists march in St. Petersburg May 1, 2013

Russia: The struggle against anti-LGBTQ repression

Stewart Stout

August 27, 2013

The attention of the international lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer community and its supporters has been fixed on Russia in recent weeks.

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History and Legacy of USSR

Kyrgyzstan: The national question and imperialism

Mazda Majidi

June 21, 2010

The Central Asian Republic of Kyrgyzstan has been the scene of a bloody conflict since June 10. Estimates of the casualties vary widely, with the country's interim president estimating up to 2,000 deaths.

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Imperialism and War

George W. Bush celebrating in Georgia with then President Misha Saakashvili

Russia, Georgia, and independence in the age of imperialism

Saul Kanowitz

August 15, 2008

The U.S. government and media have portrayed the latest conflict between Russia and Georgia over South Ossetia and Abkhazia as a resumption of Russia’s Soviet-era "domination" over the smaller, beleaguered country of Georgia.

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Soviet Union

The criminal legacy of Boris Yeltsin

Ben Becker

June 1, 2007

Boris Yeltsin died on April 23 at the age of 76. He was best known for presiding over the 1991 capitalist counterrevolution in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. For that reason, few Russian workers ...

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National Question and Class Unity

Yugoslavia: Nationalist competition opened door to imperialist intervention

Richard Becker

October 1, 2005

Can different nationalities coexist within a single, multinational state? Many people point to the fracturing of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s as evidence that such a project is impossible. But in the years after World ...

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History and Legacy of USSR

Relatives and neighbors grieve outside the house of an eight-year-old child hostage killed in the takeover of a school in Beslan, Russia.
Photo: Viktor Korotayev

Oil, imperialism and national conflict in the Caucasus

Gloria La Riva

December 1, 2004

The September 3 massacre of at least 360 children and adults in the town of Beslan, North Ossetia, in the Caucasus region of Russia, shocked the world and brought the conflict in the area into ...

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