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That night I read The Revolt of the Masses not yet knowing
that at that same hour they
set houses on fire. They say,
an old woman tossed in flames trying

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How one disaster at Katyn helped us move past another

A generation ago, a Soviet dam drained the Aral Sea. Can a new dam reclaim it?

Twenty years ago, the most grandiose political and social experiment of the twentieth century, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, came to an end. It was a slow and painful death; there was no Soviet 9/11, no sudden implosion of...

One Afghan Refugee’s Quest to Recover the Past.

Just outside Chernobyl’s exclusion zone, a generation of children has grown up wondering about the future.