state power and the execution of the rosenbergs

Their murders should be remembered as much for the lives lost as for what their state-sanctioned killings reveal about how far U.S government will go to destroy those persecuted as national-security threats.. Rosenbergs were executed for being spies for Soviet Union .  Julius was Soviet,..

monthly review

Henry Luce, the media mogul at the head of the . empire, who coined the term “the American Century,” observed in November 1957 in . that the United States “can stand the load of any defense effort required to hold the power of Soviet Russia in check. It cannot, however, indefinitely stand the..

tribunedigital-baltimoresun

ONE OF THE greatest mistakes in the history of American intelligence was the failure to predict the collapse of Soviet Union. Various arms of U.S government were so invested in the idea of Soviet military threat -- because it served their own purposes -- that no one knew quite..

lights out for reform party

With his old plan to nick off western Canada going nowhere -- and probably moot since so many Asians have immigrated there -- the man for whom the GOP is too left wing tenders a sour stew of nativism, isolation, economic nationalism and wistfulness over the nifty might-have-beens if only the misguided..

why study the russian revolution?

But neither the Provisional Government nor the Soviet leaders were pleased to learn of Trotsky’s arrival. ... In 1931, the American liberal philosopher John Dewey wrote a review for the New Republic of several books about the Soviet Union. ..

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