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Foreign PolicyFebruary 16, 2023
The Ukraine War and Loss of Nuance
On the complexities and contradictions of history.
Ronald Grigor Suny
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HistoryOctober 28, 2009
Empire Falls: The Revolutions of 1989
The story of communism’s rise and fall in Eastern Europe is a tale of two revolutions.
Ronald Grigor Suny
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HistoryFebruary 14, 2008
Revolutionary States
Two new books take a closer look at the “Soviet monster” in an age of lazy, anti-Communist rhetoric.
Ronald Grigor Suny
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Regions and CountriesJanuary 22, 2007
Hrant Dink (1954-2007)
A courageous editor and fervent Turkish patriot is killed in the name of nationalists intent on burying the inconvenient realities of history.
Ronald Grigor Suny
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PhilosophyAugust 10, 2006
The Prison Notebooks
Nikolai Bukharin’s Philosophical Arabesques is more than a cul-de-sac on the road from Marx to Stalin; the book defines a political path still not taken.
Ronald Grigor Suny
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BiographySeptember 9, 2004
In the Bedroom (With Stalin)
Stalin continues to fascinate–the central mystery within the riddle inside the enigma that was the Soviet Union. If you Google “Stalin, biography,” 166,000 websites come up.
Ronald Grigor Suny