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Sex and socialism
Is it time to consider what socialism can mean in the bedrooms as well as in the body politic? By Alice Embree | The Rag Blog | September 20, 2017 Is sex better under socialism? Apparently, according to an August … Continue reading
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Tagged Alice Embree, Julia Mickenberg, Rag Bloggers, Sex and Socialism, Soviet Union, Women's Liberation
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Is a new Cold War upon us?
From the residue of the old Soviet Union, a new nationalist, nuclear-armed, resource-rich Russia has risen to challenge Western claims of triumphalism. By Tom Hayden | The Rag Blog | March 5, 2014 Haven’t the Republicans, the neoconservatives, and the … Continue reading
Michael James : Baseball in Moscow and ‘Turf Accountant’ in Belfast
Turf Accountant, a betting parlor in Belfast, Northern Ireland, August 7, 1990. Photo by Michael James from his forthcoming book, Michael Gaylord James‘ Pictures from the Long Haul. Pictures from the Long Haul:Playing baseball in the USSR and drinking Guinness … Continue reading
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Tagged Athletes United for Peace, Belfast, Dublin, Ireland, Memoir, Michael James, Moscow, Pictures from the Long Haul, Soviet Union
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Harry Targ : From the Bay of Pigs to the Missile Crisis / 3
Front page of New York Daily News, October 23, 1962. From the Mitchell Archives.The Cuba story, Part 3:The Bay of Pigs to the missile crisis The Cuban missile crisis suggests that the United States would go to any extreme, even … Continue reading
INTERVIEW / Jonah Raskin : Steven Halliwell, To Russia With Love
To Russia with love:A Rag Blog interview with Steven Halliwell What Russia shows us is that there’s no easy fix. Getting to a common global discussion is the biggest challenge of the 21st century. By Jonah Raskin / The Rag … Continue reading
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Tagged Activists, Bankers, Interview, Jonah Raskin, Russia, Sixties, Soviet Union, Steven Halliwell, World History
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BOOKS / Jonah Raskin : Schneir’s ‘Final Verdict’ on Rosenbergs Offers No Such Thing
Walter Schneir’s ‘Final Verdict’:New book on Rosenbergs fails to deliverBy Jonah Raskin / The Rag Blog / November 6, 2010 [Final Verdict: What Really Happened in the Rosenberg Case by Walter Schneir; Preface and Afterword by Miriam Schneir (Melville House, … Continue reading
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Tagged Atomic Bomb, Books, Communist Party, Espionage, Jonah Raskin, Rosenberg Case, Soviet Union
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Bob Feldman : A People’s History of Afghanistan /12
Soviet troops leaving Afghanistan, 1988. Photo by Mikhail Evstafiev / Wikimedia Commons.Part 12: 1987-1992A People’s History of Afghanistan By Bob Feldman / The Rag Blog / June 21, 2010 [If you’re a Rag Blog reader who wonders how the Pentagon … Continue reading
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Tagged Afghanistan, Bob Feldman, Mikhail Gorbachev, Opium, South Asia, Soviet Union, World History
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Bob Feldman : A People’s History of Afghanistan /10
Deputy Premier Hafizullah Amin (on right) is shown in this series of frames swearing his allegiance to Premier Noor Mohammad Taraki in 1979, shortly before arranging to have him assassinated. Image from BBC.Part 10: 1979-1981A People’s History of Afghanistan By … Continue reading
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Tagged Afghanistan, Bob Feldman, Jimmy Carter, South Asia, Soviet Union, World History
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U.S. in Afghanistan : 1979-2009
Afghanistan: Mujahedin in 1984. Photo from U.S. Foreign Policy in Perspective.The thirty years war:The United States in AfghanistanBy Harry Targ / The Rag Blog / December 27, 2009 When the Soviet Union sent 85,000 of its troops to Afghanistan in … Continue reading
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Tagged Afghanistan, Cold War, Harry Targ, Imperialism, Jimmy Carter, Soviet Union, U.S. Foreign Policy
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BBC Poll on Capitalism : Where’s the Love?
Global survey on free market capitalism:Majority say fix it or ditch it By James Robbins / November 9, 2009 Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a new BBC poll has found widespread dissatisfaction with free-market capitalism. In … Continue reading
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Tagged Berlin Wall, Capitalism, Economics, Economy, Free Market, Government Regulation, Public Opinion, Soviet Union, World Opinion
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History as Politics : Remembering the Berlin Wall
Man straddles Berlin Wall in 1989. Photo from photosfan.com.History as politics, Politics as history: Remembering the Berlin Wall By Harry Targ / The Rag Blog / November 9, 2009 …you are Americans and are meant to carry liberty and justice … Continue reading
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Tagged Berlin Wall, Cold War, Communism, Germany, History, Social Change, Socialism, Soviet Union, World History
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