They Handed the Soviets the Blueprint for the Atomic Bomb—and Remained At Large for 10 More Years

Morris and Lona Cohen began spying for the USSR at the beginning of World War II and went virtually undetected across two ...
Foreign Affairs

Young Heroes of the Soviet Union: A Memoir and a Reckoning

Halberstadt was a child when he immigrated to the United States from the Soviet Union with his Jewish mother. In a pattern common to young American writers of foreign descent, he began to feel the ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Across the Former Soviet Union Finding Heroes in the Wrong Places: Ukraine May Celebrate Top Cossack

A Ukrainian town may soon receive a monument to two men whom many Ukrainians regard as national heroes, but who historians say organized a revolt that led to the mass murders of Jews. The town of Uman ...
The Arts Desk

Alex Halberstadt: Young Heroes of the Soviet Union review - a familial history of the twentieth century

Writer Alex Halberstadt moved from Moscow to New York at the age of ten ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Soviet Album of World War Ii Heroes Omits Jewish Identification

None of the Jews included in an album of 40 photographs of World War II heroes of the Soviet Union is identified as such, according to information received here today from Moscow. Each photograph ...
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How one man escaped the Soviet Union with nothing but a snorkel

Thousands dreamed of escaping the Soviet Union, but only a few attempted defections so daring that they humiliated the ...
Bay Area Reporter

Soviet Army hockey heroes & us

American-born director Gabe Polsky's absorbing if strangely structured doc Red Army, on the 1970s-80s Soviet national hockey team, opens Friday. The title refers to the squad of hockey players ...
The Conversation

How Andrei Sakharov went from Soviet hero to dissident — and forced the world to pay attention to human rights

This piece is part of a new series in collaboration with the ABC’s Saturday Extra program. Each week, the show will have a “who am I” quiz for listeners about influential figures who helped shape the ...