The Nation18h
The Often Misunderstood History of the Soviet Dissidents
In To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause, historian Benjamin Nathans sheds light on how the protest movement reinvented itself ...
Dirk Bogarde and the KGB’s gay entrapment plot: MI5 files reveal secret warning to British film icon
Newly declassified files show the actor’s name was on a list of ‘practising British homosexuals’ passed to the Russians ...
El País in English6d
The last secrets of Kim Philby, the Soviet double agent who betrayed the UK
The British secret service has declassified new documents about the famous spy who ended up fleeing to Moscow, where he died ...
Queen Elizabeth II wasn't told about Soviet spy in her palace, declassified MI5 files show
Newly declassified British documents show that Queen Elizabeth II wasn’t told details of her long-time art adviser's double ...
Foreign Affairs13d
To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement
Drawing on extensive new material, Nathans’ insightful history of Soviet dissidents introduces remarkable individuals who courageously and selflessly tried to pursue civil rights from the 1960s ...
The Financial Times12d
Poland rethinks offer to repatriate relatives of Soviet era deportees
Poland may stop granting passports to relatives of Poles deported to the former Soviet Union in the 1940s ... t know if he is part of the Russian KGB,” he said. “We need to know if these ...