Nation Topics - Soviet Union | The Nation

A postwar German novelist’s complicated legacy.

Why are Yale and other top universities teaching a Grand Strategy seminar if the conditions that seemed to call for grand strategizing no longer exist?

Rodric Braithwaite, Jonathan Steele and Artemy Kalinovsky analyze the forgotten history of Afghan communism and the Soviet occupation.

Norman Davies’s Vanished Kingdoms.

What can the United States learn from the Soviet Union's collapse?

A war on Iran to stop its nuclear program would bring on a proliferation catastrophe.

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

The use of food as a weapon during World War II.

Twenty years after the end of the Soviet Union, the relationship features more elements of cold-war conflict than of stable cooperation.

A new history of Europe’s postwar world and its displaced persons.