Alternative Accounts of the Russia-Ukraine Conflict: a history of the US-Russia relations during the Cold War, part V (b)
Within years of Stalin’s death in 1953, there had erupted...
Alternative Accounts of the Russia-Ukraine Conflict: a history of the US-Russia relations during the Cold War, part V (b)
Within years of Stalin’s death in 1953, there had erupted a number of uprisings against communist regimes, first in Hungary in 1956 and then in Czechoslovakia in 1968. For the time being, these uprisings were…
Alternative Accounts of the Russia-Ukraine Conflict: a history of the US-Russia relations during the Cold War, part V (a)
The Cold War was, a war of ideologies, positing capitalism (and liberal democracies) on the one hand and communism (and totalitarian regimes) on the other as two mutually exclusive systems: economic, political, and social.
Alternative Accounts of the Russia-Ukraine Conflict: a history of the US-Russia relations during World War II, part IV
Hitler disliked the photograph taken when the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact was signed in the Kremlin because it showed Stalin with a cigarette in his hand. Hitler felt the cigarette was unsuited to the historic occasion…
Alternative Accounts of the Russia-Ukraine Conflict: a history of the US-Russia relations, part III
Cont’d from part II I Once it became clear that the Bolshevik Revolution was irreversible—the West having to resign itself to challenging the emergent Russian Empire on ideological grounds alone since military intervention was no…
Alternative Accounts of the Russia-Ukraine Conflict: a history of the US-Russia relations, part II
Cont’d from Part I The history of Ukraine, especially vis-à-vis adjacent Russia, dates back to the 10th century, and it’s a checkered one. [1] It’d do us no good trying to adjudicate the present-day conflict…
Alternative Accounts of the Russian-Ukraine Conflict: infowars
Cont’d from the introduction I Several comments to my introductory piece on the Russo-Ukraine conflict—from our own Gerald Plummer of all people—demand that I be clear about the underlying aim. It’s not to condone war,…
Alternative Accounts of the Russian-Ukraine conflict: introduction
I I’ve long refrained from commenting on the Russian-Ukraine conflict. First off, it’s still a recent development, only two months in the making if we’re to count February 24 as the starting point of open…
Community Organizer’s Toolkit: an Adjunct to Mao’s Little Red Book, Part III
I Altruism is a touchy-feely kind of term. Just like philanthropy, it suggests a certain disconnect from the business called life. One never knows what’s in the heart of an altruist or a philanthropist, a…
Hidden Dimensions of American Politics, Part IV: Conclusion
I If a certain sense of justice and fairness concerning how we ought to treat other cultures and nations characterizes the Left’s central position regarding its outreach toward the world at large, what issue exercises…
Alternative Accounts of the Russian-Ukraine Conflict: a history of the US-Russian relations, part I
Cont’d from Infowars I American involvement in the Russian Revolution was the key event that pitted the United States and the Soviet Union against each other for the next seventy years. It was the foundation for a face-off between the two…
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Alternative Accounts of the Russia-Ukraine Conflict: a history of the US-Russia relations during the Cold War, part V (a)
The Cold War was, a war of ideologies, positing capitalism...
Alternative Accounts of the Russia-Ukraine Conflict: a history of the US-Russia relations during World War II, part IV
Hitler disliked the photograph taken when the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact...
Alternative Accounts of the Russia-Ukraine Conflict: a history of the US-Russia relations, part III
Cont’d from part II I Once it became clear that...