Soviet Union
Dear and hateful
Christopher Silvester shows how Konchalovsky has one of the strangest careers in world cinema
The wrong war?
Jeremy Black says McMeekin’s account provides tough reading for anybody endorsing the Guardian’s view of history
The blissful political incorrectness of Soviet comedies
Soviet cinema reveals to the West that life in the USSR was not all grey, unsmiling misery; instead, the Soviets were just like us
The Russians aren’t coming
New music was not officially muted in the Soviet Union. It just got left at home, says Norman Lebrecht
Stephen Cohen: historian, polemicist and friend of Gorbachev
Cohen was a prophet of America’s decline
Rich and red: The USSR’s prize assets
The wealthy young Americans who laboured for decades to help the communist cause
A spy all along
Morton Sobell went on trial for espionage with the Rosenbergs. His devotion to communism fascinated me
Melancholy of obsolete futures
Alexander Adams on Soviet Brutalism and where to read about it
Writer who caught the reality of war
Vasily Grossman was not only a great correspondent in World War Two but a courageous dissident
When did the Cold War actually start?
Professor Jeremy Black picks-over the evidence with Graham Stewart
Welcome to butter mountain
Labour’s extraordinary predicted majority might disappear almost as quickly as it arrives
Labour’s move to ban speech on abortion won’t stop outside clinics
All dissent on the subject is being problematised if not criminalised
Portraits in cowardice
Conservative MPs need to rediscover their spines if they want to be effective
I love a “dream home” nightmare
What disasters will strike the family next? You almost expect a tsunami
There is no human right to assisted suicide
Lady Hale is wrong about the existing laws
Vicarious pleasure
On the enduring allure of celebrity cast-offs
Don’t shoot the piano man
A silent film pianist was blacklisted from the BFI for supporting J.K. Rowling
Conservatism needs environmentalism
What could be more conservative than conserving our natural heritage?
Why we should give votes to kids
It would stop their interests from being neglected
Three cheers for peers of mature years
Removing some of the wisest and most experienced voices in the House would be destructive and wrong
Britain isn’t the Balkans
The UK is not, despite heated rhetoric, on the brink of sectarian violence. But it is heading in the wrong direction
