[Letter to his wife, Natalia Sedova]In addition to the happiness of being a fighter for the cause of socialism, fate gave me the happiness of being her husband. During the almost forty years of our li...
She was arriving at a revelation that the secret to living was simply forgetting
My mother had been in the Soviet whirlpool for eleven years by this point. Enough time, I imagine, to unlearn the bourgeois habits of her native Brooklyn, to accustom herself to the farting and shouti...
From the moment Julian entered the world, Florence had begun to conceive of life as separate from the aspects of its outward circumstances. Over and over, life renewed itself. Over and over, it made i...
Their courtship unfolded in two settings, a Russian reality overlaid with New York memories
Florence imagined the Hammer and Sickle metallurgical plant to be an enormous brick factory like the ones in New York. But as she approached she saw it was in fact a small city of its own
Moscow appeared to her as an Asiatic sprawl of twisting streets, wooden shanties, and horse cabs. But already another Moscow was rising up through the chaos of the first. Streets built to accommodate...
A Red Riding Hood out of her depths in the woods of socialism
Her hair was totally Indian Woolworth perfume clerk. You know - sweet but dumb - she'll marry her way out of the trailer park some day soon. But the dress was early '60s Aeroflot stewardess - you know...
An army of the people is invincible!
I came out of the Soviet Union no longer a communist, because I believed in personal freedom.
My mom grew up in the Soviet Bloc, and she was a Tiger Mom. We didn't get away with much.
In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.
Our film examines the heroism, courage and prowess of the Soviet submarine force in ways never seen before.
There used to be this country called the Soviet Union it's not there anymore. Our technology was better than theirs.
Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.
It's essential for the U.S. and Europe to prevent Putin from going farther and reversing the hard-won independence of former Soviet republics.
He was a regulator first-class, which was another term for metalworker unskilled.
On March 11, 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev became leader of the Soviet Union, and within a few weeks the full-scale reformation he attempted to carry out both inside his country and in its cold war relation...