Exit Stalin: The Soviet Union as a Civilization – Accessible history of a new society
Mark B Smith ends on a poignant note and makes a rare confession for a historian
Soviet Union
I want my children to be able to stay in this country – that shouldn’t be too much to ask
Is the economic order under which we live even capable of providing us with basic necessities?
We are witnessing a change that may be as dramatic as the end of the Cold War
Donald Trump is rupturing the world order and replacing it with something else but what that may be, we do not yet know
How the West misjudged Russia’s dissidents and helped shape Putin’s rise as Soviet Union fell
Mikhail Zygar’s latest book revisits the figures who defined the USSR’s last years and the turbulent decades that followed
Motherland by Julia Ioffe: The unfairly forgotten women of the Soviet Union
A beautifully crafted tribute to remarkable women and a howl of condemnation at a country that ‘failed them’
The night a ‘sputnik’ crash-landed in rural Wexford
A garda arrived immediately to cordon off a crater in the field, then the Army was called in
So many jobs are a laughable waste of time. The greater part of any job is learning to look busy
We’ve inherited a strange cultural hangover from better times: the idea that the thing you do to survive should also double as your identity and source of pride
Lost for words: Dublin-born artist Jenny Brady explores the world of interpretation
Watching The Glass Booth, we discover the subtle, complex and fascinating interplay of power and trust that mediating language orally involves
Is Ireland ready for drab Soviet-style apartment blocks?
Government’s new apartment standards are so low they resemble the old Soviet blocks. And while more units may result, they won’t house more people
From Hilde, with Love: A powerful, elegiac story of resistance to the Third Reich
The young couple at the centre of this compelling film are quiet idealists given to neither grand pontification nor cinematic heroism
Is Russia’s war-driven economy approaching its 1989 moment?
With the Ukraine war, Putin might have backed himself into an economic cul-de-sac
‘There’s a menace, an edge to life in America that wasn’t there before. And the possibility of dark stuff’
Journalist Edward Luce on his biography of ‘cold war prophet’ Zbigniew Brzezinski, the fearful state of the US today, and ‘Lilliputian’ post-Brexit UK
Convicted Real IRA bomber speaks at event marking 80th anniversary of VE Day
At a gathering in Co Meath, John Connolly addressed those whose ancestors from the Soviet Union helped defeat Nazi Germany
One Man in His Time by NM Borodin: Powerful memoir of horror after Russia’s October 1917 revolution
Unsparing depiction of life under the brutal purges of Josef Stalin’s totalitarian rule
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How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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