Daily Archives: April 6, 2025

There are different interpretations of perestroika in the West, including the United States. There is the view that it has been necessitated by the disastrous state of the Soviet economy and that it signifies disenchantment with socialism and a crisis … Continue reading →

SF Gate: Scrolling through the photos of US demonstrations I saw signs with “immigrants” and “fascism” misspelled, backwards swastikas, Trump labeled “Putin’s pawn”, one reference to “class war” and one to Gaza, though since the photos were journalist-chosen there is … Continue reading →

Its leaders in the first decade of the new millennium had their periods of co‑operating with America, but the ambition to assert independent Russian authority was strong and getting stronger. —Robert Service, The Penguin History of Modern Russia, (Great Britain: … Continue reading →