Nation Topics - Nikita Khrushchev | The Nation

On its fiftieth anniversary, the founding declaration of SDS echoes today in democracy movements around the world.

The Other America offered a view of poverty that seemed designed to comfort the already comfortable.

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

Letter From Europe.

Several new histories trace Cuba's exotic and reviled place in the American political imagination.

It's hard to win a presidential debate when you look like Rudolf Hess. That's probably why Richard Nixon did much better against John F. Kennedy, among those who listened on the radio.

The freeing of the "zeks" confronted Russia with living memories of the Terror.

Despite the controversies he aroused in the West and in Russia, Solzhenitsyn remains above all else a writer who bore witness to Soviet society's long-censored suffering.

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