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Germany’s invasion of Poland in 1939 and of the Soviet Union in 1941 set off mass migrations of Polish Jews eastward. Precise figures are hard to come by, but hundreds of thousands of Polish ...

This was, however, a self-serving fiction.” Leontiev is often credited ... offering arms deals and infrastructure assistance. “The Soviet Union had ideological and practical motives for ...

“You’re next,” said a Russian historian I interviewed in 1993 about the Soviet Union’s collapse in late 1991. I was an American student in St. Petersburg, and he was referring to the ...

However, this was just weeks after Soviet ... fiction that imagined a communist utopia on the red planet, Mars. The Bolsheviks considered themselves the heirs to the European revolutionary tradition.