New York University has received an archival goldmine. The Communist Party USA has donated their archive of 12,000 cartons of material that includes internal directives

The deaths at the Ulyanovskaya mine explosion in Kemerovo region continue to mount as time passes. As of publication, Kommersant reported a tally of 75

The political culture of blogging is almost as interesting as the blogs themselves. All one has to do to get a glimpse of this is

Most assume that utopianism had all but vanished from the Soviet landscape by the time Brezhnev’s walking corpse stumbled down the Kremlin halls. After all,

The New York Times continues to follow the windy road of the murder investigation. Including the notion that Litvinenko or one of the people he

Gotcha! Actually, there is still nothing new concerning the shooting of Paul Joyal, though it appears that DC police are pretty much convinced it was

I stumbled across Artyom Borovik’s The Hidden War in a Santa Monica used bookstore on Thursday. Not knowing much about the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan,

Yesterday I suggested that Sunday’s regional elections in Russia suggests that there is a move to create a two party system comprising of United Russia

There isn’t much to say about the results of Sunday’s local elections in Russia. That is except that Putin’s “managed democracy” seems to be going

http://www.comedycentral.com/sitewide/flash/syndicated_player/myspace_title.swfhttp://www.comedycentral.com/motherload/syndicated_player/index.jhtml The other night I received two emails simultaneously from friends alerting me that Michael Specter was to be a guest on the Colbert Report.