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Soviet Union

Posted inEditor's Pick

The Collaborators

by Seyward Darby February 6, 2023February 6, 2023

“As occupied territories are liberated, some residents face accusations that they sided with the enemy.”

Posted inEditor's Pick

Extraction

by Seyward Darby January 26, 2023January 26, 2023

“When your great-grandparents grew up in Stalin’s terror-famine, your grandparents in the Holocaust, and your parents in a straddle between totalitarianism and democracy, you grew up confused about pain.”

illustration of man and boat along the sea
Posted inNonfiction

Perilous Passage

by Longreads March 2, 2022October 12, 2022

The true story of a Ukrainian father and son who became the first — and only — Soviet defectors to seek freedom in the West by crossing the icy Bering Strait.

Posted inNonfiction

Solving the Mystery of Dyatlov Pass

by Carolyn Wells May 17, 2021October 14, 2022

Has the 60-year-old mystery surrounding the deaths of ten skiers finally been solved?

Posted inEditor's Pick

Hathi

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands April 24, 2021October 19, 2022

“Millions suffered through terror and upheaval in the turbulent years following the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. One of them was a baby elephant from India.”

Posted inEditor's Pick

Magen David and Me

by Sari Botton February 15, 2019October 19, 2022

A personal essay in which, after facing persecution in the former Soviet Union and a new wave of antisemitism in the United States, Marya Zilberberg decides to put her Jewishness on display.

Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction

Magen David and Me

by Marya Zilberberg February 15, 2019October 19, 2022

After facing persecution in the former Soviet Union and a new wave of antisemitism in the United States, Marya Zilberberg decides to put her Jewishness on display.

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story

Magen David and Me

by Marya Zilberberg February 15, 2019October 19, 2022

After facing persecution in the former Soviet Union and a new wave of antisemitism in the United States, Marya Zilberberg decides to put her Jewishness on display.

Posted inBooks, History, Nonfiction, Story, Writing

Stalin’s Scheherazade

by Longreads February 6, 2019October 19, 2022

An opportunistic literary caper became a lifelong con — with no possibility of escape.

Posted inBooks, Essays & Criticism, Story

For Single Mothers Working as Train Conductors

by Laura Esther Wolfson August 29, 2018October 19, 2022

My Soviet husband said we’d need 24-hour day care for any children we might have. Many years and the fall of an empire later, I finally realized why he said it.

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