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Gore Vidal

Requiem for the American Empire Requiem for the American Empire

“Empires are restless organisms. They must constantly renew themselves; should an empire start leaking energy, it will die.”

Jan 11, 1986 / Gore Vidal

Rosa Luxemburg grave in Berlin

A Spartacan Manifesto A Spartacan Manifesto

Shortly after the murders of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, The Nation published the manifesto of the German Spartacists, a group the pair co-founded to incite a Marxist revol...

Mar 8, 1919 / Clara Zetkin, Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Liebknecht, and Franz Mehring

Flowers at the Berlin Wall Memorial after the commemoration ceremony marking the 35th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Berlin, Germany, on November 9, 2024.

Sovietology and the End of the Cold War Sovietology and the End of the Cold War

The Cold War and its effects.

Nov 5, 0030 / Ronald Grigor Suny

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