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During her long life, Morawetz became a successful writer, raised a family and played a role in the defection of Soviet ballet star Mikhail Baryshnikov

As a loyal and dependable kgb agent. and its there that he begins to see things in a different light. [tim] the turning point for him was the soviet decision to crush the prague spring. an attempt at liberalizing the soviet-style regime in czechoslovakia in 1968. gordievsky has had an internal personal shift. he recognizes the inherent repressiveness of the soviet system which, as a kgb officer, hes sworn to defend. this is an ideological decision for him.

As a loyal and dependable kgb agent. and its there that he begins to see things in a different light. [tim] the turning point for him was the soviet decision to crush the prague spring. an attempt at liberalizing the soviet-style regime in czechoslovakia in 1968. gordievsky has had an internal personal shift. he recognizes the inherent repressiveness of the soviet system which, as a kgb officer, hes sworn to defend. this is an ideological decision for him.

Lauren Oyler on the German author Jenny Erpenbeck and her private collection of ephemera from the German Democratic Republic.

A pulse-quickening novel about a tempestuous age-gap relationship at the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall has won the top prize for translated fiction. The German author and her translator discuss how it entwines the personal and political

'No Other Land' won the Millennium Docs Against Gravity grand prize in the main competition.

Finns quickly changed their opinion about joining the alliance.

An activist's main weapon is their power of persuasion, its effective use being essential to motivate others.

Yknow Robin, I couldve not been here, couldve been dead. On the 17th of June 1940, when the war started, I was 11, and 12 when armed soldiers stormed into our house. I went out to the garden holding a bowl of fruits and soon heard gunshots. My mother lay dead at the door, trying to protect me.My

Jack F. Matlock, Jr. served from 1987 until 1991 as the US ambassador in the Soviet Union and from 1981 until 1983 in Czechoslovakia. Es served in the - Gregor Baszak for Antiwar.com