[Continued from: Evolution of Soviet “Rights-Talk,” part 1: Lenin and the 1918 Constitution] Stalin and the 1936 Constitution The violence and social upheaval of the 1930s might suggest legal instability, but […]
“What happens to human rights when ‘the human’ is understood to be a work in progress?” “What happens to human rights when ‘the human’ is understood to be a work […]
The widely accepted idea that the use of atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a carefully considered calculus to save human lives — even the idea that Secretary of […]
It doesn’t matter if you’re a hawk or a dove. In fact, the doves and hawks both got it wrong, suggests Nicholas Thompson. The Soviets’ mindsets and motivations fit “some […]
Peter Schmelz, a musicologist at Washington University, St. Louis, wrote a great article that analyzes Soviet “nuclear culture” through an oratorio on Nagasaki that was broadcast both at home and […]
