When Victor Yelchin was a boy in Cold War-era Moscow, he was so thrilled to receive a stick of Juicy Fruit gum from an American tourist that he chewed it for three weeks. “By the time I ...

This book traces Phillips’ trip in 2019 along the entire length of what used to be the Iron Curtain, from the small Norwegian port of Grense Jakobselv on the Barents Sea to Sadarak, an Azerbaijani ...

THE PICNIC: A Dream of Freedom and the Collapse of the Iron Curtain, by Matthew Longo “Gorbachev will pay for his sins! I can’t stand the sight of his pig’s mug!” ...

This was done, among other means, through the agency of covert book clubs funded and supplied with literature by the CIA. The impact of the covert subversion of Soviet bloc countries through books ...

This was done, among other means, through the agency of covert book clubs funded and supplied with literature by the CIA. The impact of the covert subversion of Soviet bloc countries through books ...

Books: Iron Curtain Raisers; Books: Iron Curtain Raisers. 3 minute read. TIME. March 2, 1959 12:00 AM GMT-5. THE ENEMY (143 pp.)—Tibor Mercy —Criterion ($3).

The Picnic: An Escape to Freedom and the Collapse of the Iron Curtain Matthew Longo Bodley Head, 320pp, £22. Purchasing a book may earn the NS a commission from Bookshop.org, who support independent ...

In an account that reads more like a spy thriller than a political history, British author Charlie English recounts the story ...

To that last genre, she has now contributed three books, and the latest, “Iron Curtain: A Love Story” (Norton), is yet another departure, from skillful contrivance to full-throated voice.

Voice of America brought light to dark places. Just ask Martina Navratilova. When the future tennis star was growing up behind the Iron Curtain, hearing U.S. music and the news of the world “was ...