Roza Mukanova’s The Angel of Karaul brings the human legacy of Soviet nuclear testing in Kazakhstan to the Frankfurt Book Fair https://ow.ly/nuwl50ZWolB #Kazakhstan #Semipalatinsk #FrankfurtBookFair2026 #Literature #TheAngelOfKaraul #RozaMukanova #SovietHistory #NuclearTesting

October 23 marks 70 years since the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and Soviet intervention. My book traces its tremors in East Germany, Austria, Romania, Soviet Ukraine, and Soviet Russia.
Kirkus Reviews: “An extremely well-researched volume.”
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Solzhenitsyn’s work helped bring the experiences of Soviet prisoners to readers around the world, ensuring that the human cost of political repression could not be easily erased.

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THE LAST PURGE explores the political ramifications of what is now known as the Cotton Affair, the largest and final purge in the post-Stalin Soviet Union.
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What happens when the man who built the Red Army loses his own party? Trotsky explains.
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Brezhnev's Role in the Afghan Military Adventure, Which Cost the USSR its Existence
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THE LAST PURGE explores the political ramifications of what is now known as the Cotton Affair, the largest and final purge in the post-Stalin Soviet Union.
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Learn more here:
https://ow.ly/ATW150ZlnjB

After 25 years as a journalist, I turned to historical fiction to ask: What happens to love when the state controls the body? My novel, "Love in Communism," explores the untold stories left outside history books. Read my essay:
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From its first days, the Soviet regime intentionally used terror as a tool of rule. 5.09.1918 Soviet Russian government issued a decree permitting execution of the people for belonging to the "hostile classes". #RussianHistory #SovietHistory #otd

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