by Patricia H. Kushlis | Sep 9, 2016 | Monitor
By Patricia H Kushlis Robert Service’s The End of the Cold War 1985-1991 is foremost a retelling of the nuclear arms control negotiations between the US and the Soviet Union during the Gorbachev era. Other issues are found in the chapters that form the last two...
by Patricia H. Kushlis | May 8, 2016 | Monitor
By Patricia H Kushlis London May 8. I spent May Day in London including ten minutes or so observing what amounted to a minuscule Socialist Workers demonstration whose participants had assembled on a small green near Karl Marx’s house in Islington and the pub across...
by Patricia H. Kushlis | Mar 22, 2016 | Monitor
By Patricia H Kushlis I know it may be hard to believe after reading multiple media reports about Putin’s latest “surprise pull out from Syria†but the Kremlin did not, repeat, not, really pull its military out of Syria last week. The Russian Air Force is still...
by Patricia H. Kushlis | Jan 25, 2016 | Monitor
By Patricia H Kushlis Not long after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan various versions of the following joke circulated in Moscow: An American and a Soviet were comparing notes about their respective modes of travel. The Soviet asked the American how he got the...
by Patricia H. Kushlis | Jan 6, 2016 | Monitor
By Patricia H Kushlis After the Soviet Union disintegrated in 1991, the Russian Federation was left with much of its territory but far fewer of its ethnic minorities. Within Russia, most minority regions became republics along the lines of those lost. At the time,...