Nation Topics - Leonid Brezhnev | The Nation

If the world has a heart, it beats now for Egypt.

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.

Our forebears struggled to survive in a world dominated by the superrich. Now it's our turn.

Stalin has had a rough time at the hands of Russian novelists in recent years.

Four days that fascinated the Soviet people.

For years, if they wished to be honest, observers of
the Soviet Union had to work like archeologists,
digging below the political surface to discover real
social changes taking place in the co

"The Party always arrives five minutes after the hour," one critical East Berlin Communist complained bitterly, just as events there were gathering momentum.