Tag Archives: USSR

Doctor Zhivago vs. Soviet Communism

Thursday A new book explains how and why Boris Pasternak’s Nobel-prize winning Dr. Zhivago played an important role during the Cold War. Peter Finn’s and Petra Couvée’s The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, The CIA, and the Battle Over a Forbidden Book makes it sound as though former English majors were running the CIA’s Soviet Russia […]

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Estonia Calls, Obama Answers

Obama seemed to be responding to an Estonian poet in his NATO speech.

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