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Russia’s Cold War

Kristen Ghodsee (Bowdoin): Tale of “Two Totalitarianisms”: The Crisis of Capitalism and the Historical Memory of Communism. The introduction to On Stalin’s Team: The Years of Living Dangerously in Soviet Politics by Sheila Fitzpatrick. Aryeh Neier on how Putin’s Russia is erasing the memory of Stalin’s crimes. James Kirchick on Cold War symbolism: Not just for the 1950s anymore. How to explain the KGB’s amazing success identifying CIA agents in the field? Thanassis Cambanis on how a handshake in Helsinki helped end the Cold War: The signing of the Helsinki Accords was a critical juncture in the long struggle of the individual against state authority. The man who spoke truth to power: Sidney D. Drell, Jim Hoagland, and George P. Shultz on Andrei Sakharov’s enduring relevance. Laura Kurek on the story of why the Soviet Union first labeled the computer as a taboo invention, and later believed it would prove the superiority of the communist system. Greg Miller goes inside the secret world of Russia’s Cold War mapmakers. Sheila Fitzpatrick reviews Landscapes of Communism: A History through Buildings by Owen Hatherley.