Unwilling to examine the responsibility of Stalinism for the destruction of Soviet Union, the events of 1991 and their aftermath deepened the anti- Marxist prejudices and antipathies of petty-bourgeois left academics.. ..…

However, developments of the two great socialist revolutions—in the soviet Union and China—have left many people on the left disheartened and discouraged about the prospects of socialism. . ..…

The readiness of Soviets, at least temporarily, not to contest Western Italy, Greece, Western Europe, and Japan, and the willingness of Western powers to accept Soviet rule in much of Eastern Europe still left open the issue of Poland, at least for while. ..…

Soviet strategists reached strikingly similar conclusions. When the Soviet forces in Afghanistan withdrew in 1989, they left behind a government, led by the Afghan Communist Mohammad Najibullah, that survived for three years. ..…

Najibullah’s left-wing government, which came to power in 1986, relied on Soviet backing and its writ barely extended beyond Kabul. ..…

Led by a group of young renegades from Communist ranks who billed themselves as New Philosophers, many New Left intellectuals have rejected Marxism and developed a deep-rooted antipathy toward the Soviet Union. ..…

., China, and Soviet Union — as guarantor of world peace.. By the community has left the station, While American political class is stuck on the collusion between Donald Trump and Kremlin, the global shift eastward. ..…

A major weakness of the Soviet empire was that important members of the Warsaw Pact were not content with the Soviet order, and as soon as they had a chance to defect, they took it. . . Top left: The Japanese heavy cruiser Mikuma pictured on the afternoon of June 6, 1942, after the ship had..…

By this time, he had long been prominent as a leading critic of détente and arms-control talks with the Soviet Union, and a loathed figure on the left. ... He again became a lightning rod for the left, which regarded him as a sinister influence on Soviet policy. . ..…

From left to right: Ia. Kh. Peters, I. S. Unszlicht, A. Ia. Belenky, F. ... The Soviet delegation at Brest-Litovsk, 1918. Sitting (from left): Lev Kamenev, Adolf Joffe, Anastasia Bitsenko. ..…

Lenin, Sukhanov recalled, seemed to pay scant attention to the Soviet chairman’s oration, as if it had nothing to do with him. ... By September, the political situation began to shift radically to the left. ..…