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May 15, 2012

A Screening of Age of Delirium: The Decline and Fall of the Soviet Union

Age of Delirium: The Decline and Fall of the Soviet Union

The Hoover Institution and the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies presented a screening of Age of Delirium: The Decline and Fall of the Soviet Union on May 16, 2012, at 6:30 pm at the Fisher Conference Center in the Arrillaga Alumni Association Building on the Stanford campus.

May 9, 2012 | What Paul Gregory Is Writing About

Buy Shares of Russian State Companies: This Time We’ll Behave

The only reason to consider buying shares of Russian state companies is to wager that the corruption and mismanagement have been more than fully discounted. Investors cannot invest for value considerations...
May 7, 2012 | Forbes.com

Lost in the Crowd: Putin's Business-As-Usual Inauguration

Were it not for the French, Greece, and Schleswig-Holstein elections on Sunday, Putin’s inauguration for his third term would have been the top news...
April 19, 2012 | Corner (National Review Online)

1979 Redux?

In a variety of landscapes — North Korea, Russia, China, Iran, the Middle East, South America — this administration has either overtly or inadvertently given signals that if one were to alter the existing strategic landscape the U.S. might not react...
April 17, 2012

Documenting Soviet Crimes in Estonia

Johan Laidoner, circa 1925 (Hoover Institution Archives, Franciszek Charwat Pape

The Hoover Institution and the National Archives of Estonia have signed an agreement of cooperation for digitizing and sharing records pertaining to Estonia. The first project will be Hoover Archives’ acquiring copies of selected groups of records of the NKVD and of its successor, the KGB of the former Estonian SSSR.

April 6, 2012

Herbert Hoover's Road Not Taken

George W. Nash cartoon
Image credit: Taylor Jones

Completed forty-eight years ago, his magnum opus appears at last. George H. Nash discusses its insights into our thirty-first president. By Charity Nebbe.

April 6, 2012

Threat for Threat

Korean man with bombs
Image credit: Taylor Jones

How South Korea might deter its nuclear neighbor without going nuclear itself. By Dimitri Landa.

April 6, 2012

The Next Russian Revolution?

masked guerrilla theater group
Image credit: ©Reuters/Denis Sinyakov

The Soviet Union has been gone for twenty years, but the people of Russia are only just awakening. By Robert Service.

April 6, 2012

Shooting the Bolsheviks

Three barefoot men face
Image credit: Hoover Archives

Amid the ruins of the Great War, an American camera crew filmed a shocking sight. That roll of celluloid has taken a strange trip through history. By Bertrand M. Patenaude.

April 6, 2012

Taking on the Apparatchiks

Moscow police officer detains a demonstrator
Image credit: ©Agence France-Presse/Andrey Smirnov

Russians challenge the “deeply cynical caste” that has long ruled them. By Robert Conquest.