Yeltsin Boris
USSR 1989-91: The “democratic counter-revolution” of the nomenklatura
By Dimitris Konstantakopoulos
Third of four articles on Alexandr Buzgalin and his era. The Soviet/Russian tragedy. You can read the first article here https://www.defenddemocracy.press/aleksandr-buzgalin-and-his-time-the-soviet-russian-tragedy/ and...
Do we need Marxism? Marxism and Stalinism
By Dimitris Konstantakopoulos
In my previous article on Alexandr Buzgalin and his time, the Perestroika turned Katastroika (https://www.defenddemocracy.press/aleksandr-buzgalin-and-his-time-the-soviet-russian-tragedy/) I put the question if Marxism is...
Peace has no meaningful alternative. Four theses
By Tamás Krausz (*)
First thesis
Even though the imperialism of the 21st century is connected to the developments of the 20th century with a thousand...
The United States, the Russian Oligarchs and the looting of the...
The Harvard Boys Do Russia
After seven years of economic “reform” financed by billions of dollars in U.S.
By Janine R. Wedel
May 14, 1998
After seven years...
Russia is right: The West promised not to enlarge NATO &...
By Tarik Cyril Amar, a historian from Germany at Koç University in Istanbul working on Russia, Ukraine, and Eastern Europe, the history of World War...
Sergei Glaziev on the Soviet collapse. An interview with Dimitris Konstantakopoulos
part 1 / 2
By Dimitris Konstantakopoulos
Thirty years after the dissolution of the USSR, Sergey Yurievich Glaziev speaks about the failure of Perestroika, the results...
Cohen: “Τhe breakup of the Soviet Union undermined the march toward...
A moment with...Stephen F. Cohen
By Mark F. Bernstein ’83
April 23, 2008
To gauge how much international politics have changed over the last 40 years, consider...
Stephen Cohen. Why Did the Soviet Union End?
Speech at the International Conference The USSR 1989 – 1991: Historical Experience and Lessons for the Future at the Gorbachev Foundation. 10-11 November 2011
It...
Bush aided Yeltsin in ’91 coup, new report says
By Walter Pincus
May 15, 1994
At the time of the August 1991 attempted coup against then-Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, the Bush administration gave intelligence...
The Ukraine: The USA is responsible for the escalation and must...
By Dimitris Konstantakopoulos
Back in 1992, when I was a correspondent in Moscow, the French review Sous le Drapeau du Socialisme asked me for an...