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THE USES AND DISADVANTAGES OF SOVIET HISTORY FOR LIFE

PHOTO • ON DECEMBER 25, 1991, a Moscow family gathers to watch President Mikhail Gorbachev’s resignation. Minutes later, the Soviet flag was lowered for the last time, marking the formal end of the USSR.

YES, IT WAS AN ‘EVIL EMPIRE’ • NEARLY EVERY FORM OF SOVIET NOSTALGIA GETS THE FACTS WRONG.

UKRAINE STILL HUNGERS FOR INDEPENDENCE

TURKMENISTAN’S RECORD-SETTING REPRESSION

THE BALTIC WAY

LOST IN TRANSITION • 30 YEARS AFTER THE SOVIET COLLAPSE, WHAT HAPPENED TO THE RUSSIAN DREAM OF A FREE ECONOMY?

MEET THE NEW BOSS IN AZERBAIJAN

KAZAKHSTAN KLEPTOCRACY

LEAVING UZBEKISTAN

GARRY KASPAROV’S GAMBIT • The greatest chess player in modern history on how the Soviet Union lost to the free world

SOVIET ETHNIC POLICIES SPLIT KYRGYZSTAN

A GLIMMER OF SUCCESS IN MISERABLE MOLDOVA

Red markets • SOMETIMES COMMUNIST COUNTRIES HAD TO TOLERATE A LITTLE ECONOMIC LIBERTY JUST TO SURVIVE.

THE POPE WHO HELPED BRING DOWN COMMUNISM • “I HAVE NO DOUBT,” POLISH PRESIDENT LECH WAŁĘSSA ONCE SAID, THAT WITHOUT JOHN PAUL II “THE BIRTH OF SOLIDARITY WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN POSSIBLE.”

A SOVIET-STYLE STRONGMAN STILL RULES BELARUS

THE SICK MAN OF CENTRAL ASIA

The Anarchic Interlude • IN 1990s PRAGUE, WONDERFUL THINGS HAPPENED IN THE CHAOTIC SPACE BETWEEN THE END OF COMMUNISM AND THE RISE OF ITS REPLACEMENT.

REMITTANCES BOLSTER-AND LIMIT-ARMENIA’S POTENTIAL

SHOULD NATO OPEN ITS DOORS TO GEORGIA?

COMMUNISM DESTROYED RUSSIAN COOKING • SOVIET RULE PROMISED ABUNDANCE. INSTEAD IT BROUGHT MISERY AND STARVATION.

Terrorwashing a Genocide • How the war on terror facilitated Communist China’s repression of Uyghurs

Foucault in the Panopticon

STAR TREK VI: THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY

STASILAND

DON’T FOOL AROUND, AMERICA

FOR THOSE ABOUT TO ROCK: MONSTERS IN MOSCOW

CHARLIE WILSON’S WAR

THE GLADIATOR

GULAG HISTORY MUSEUM

FROM THE ARCHIVES: 1991 EDITION

Eugene Huskey on the Soviet Legacy in Central Asia

BRICKBATS: SOVIET EDITION