Straying From the Party Line
My last years in the USSR.
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The Soviets Abroad
Throughout its existence, the Soviet Union played the role of both liberator and oppressor.
Red Diaper Babies
In America, school is preparation for “real” life. In the early Soviet Union, school was filled with life.
The Elvis of East Germany
How a young man from Colorado became the Eastern Bloc’s biggest pop star.
Seventeen Soviet Films
The October Revolution unleashed cinematic brilliance that even decades of political censorship couldn’t extinguish.
Our Favorite Dupe
Henry Wallace was a brilliant progressive with an open mind. That’s where the trouble began.
Yacht Party Men
Not everyone hated shock therapy.
Choose Your Own Adventure
When your God that fails is Pol Pot.
Our Road to Power
The twentieth century left socialists plenty of lessons. Will we heed them?
From Red Square to Square One
What’s left of the Left in the post-socialist world?
Become a Jacobin Comrade Today
Political action can’t end with reading a magazine, but resistance needs ideas.
Fascism’s Face-Lift
Anti-communist campaigns in Eastern Europe aren’t about building a more democratic society — they’re about rehabilitating the far right.