Nation Topics - Lenin | The Nation

Ever since 1991, Russians have been looking to the Soviet past for comfort and pride.

Dwight Macdonald’s panic about Midcult now seems less prescient than misplaced.

The movement’s urgent challenge is to meet organized repression with organized resistance.

Why did different segments of the Soviet population experience Khrushchev’s reforms in radically different ways?
 

Maine Governor Paul LePage's secret removal of a mural celebrating the state's labor history is just one in a long line of struggles over publicly-funded depictions of American workers.

Rosa Luxemburg wanted it all: books and music, sex and art, evening walks and the revolution. Her lover, Leo Jogiches, told her this was nonsense.

Gal Beckerman's When They Come for Us We'll Be Gone is an engaging account of the exodus of Jews from the Soviet Union.

The CIA and me and other adventures in American sports.

Russia scholar Stephen Cohen talks to the Journal of International Affairs about re-democratization and the modernization debate.

Horacio Castellanos Moya has turned anxiety into an art form and put El Salvador on the literary map.