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Inmate Only Pretended to Take Mind-Altering Drugs : Ruse Saved Sanity, Soviet Dissident Says

VIENNA — For almost six months, Viktor Davydov conned doctors in a Soviet psychiatric prison into thinking he was taking the mind-altering drugs...

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The Often Misunderstood History of the Soviet Dissidents

The often misunderstood history of the Soviet dissident movement. In To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause, historian Benjamin Nathans sheds light on...

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Bonn Finds Soviet Shopping List of West's Restricted Technology

BONN — West Germany has obtained a top-secret Soviet directory of Moscow’s plans to acquire embargoed Western technology ranging from missiles to...

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The Fraught U.S.-Soviet Search for Alien Life

During the Cold War, American and Soviet scientists embarked on an unprecedented quest to contact extraterrestrials. But communicating across the...

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Coca-Cola plans to sell Coke in the Soviet Union.

The Atlanta-based company said the Soviet government has given permission to begin selling Coca-Cola there later this year in a deal that breaks...

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