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Soviet ghosts

Pavel Vasilyev (Max Planck): Emotions in the Early Soviet Courtroom. Roman Levkin (Duke): The Effect of Stalin's Deportations on Distrust in Central Authority. Nadina Milewska-Pindor (Lodz): The Almanac “Woman and Russia” and the Soviet Feminist Movement at the End of the 1970s. Leonard J. Baldyga reviews Hot Books in the Cold War: The CIA-Funded Secret Western Book Distribution Program Behind the Iron Curtain by Alfred A. Reisch. Why Russians love biathlon: William D. Frank on how the sport became the ultimate expression of Soviet pride. Robert Farley on five revolutionary Soviet weapons of war that never happened. Benjamin Breen goes inside the NAZ-3, a cosmonaut survival kit. Ola Cichowlas on how the Kremlin is trying to erase memories of the gulag. Civilization and its malcontents: Terrell Clemmons on how Soviet disinformation infected the West and what the West can do about it. A look at how Soviet kitchens became hotbeds of dissent and culture. Joy Neumeyer goes inside the Soviet Union's secret erotica collection. Neither East nor West: Bob McGlynn on how a small group of anarchists took on the Soviet Union and won. Whatever happened to St. Petersburg? Greg Afinogenov investigates. Vincze Miklos on how these futuristic buildings reveal the Soviets' vision for tomorrow. Soviet ghosts: Rebecca Litchfield on an empire in decay — in pictures. The dissolution of the Soviet Union: John Lloyd on Ukraine’s role and how Mikhail Gorbachev, George HW Bush and Boris Yeltsin were resistant to the break-up. The ghosts of ’91: Joshua Keating reviews The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union by Serhii Plokhy (and more). Richard Connolly on how the Soviet Union could make a comeback: Blame the sanctions against Russia — and Ukraine.