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As a Soviet teenager growing in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv in the mid-1980s, I was a happy camper.  I was going to a new school near home, which was convenient, though I had to walk through deep mud as the road to school had not been completed. At the time there were many unfinished construction projects as the Soviet central planning system was evidently running out of money. My family was doing well; we had a washing machine and my father was driving a Lada. With five of my schoolmates, we shared one skateboard and a tennis racket. With my small cassette player, we ran our own disc...

Might Versus Right: Putin’s Bunker and the Protests Outside Putin’s willingness to resort to police batons has polarized society and radicalized those who are dissatisfied with his rule. Sergei Savostyanov / TASS “How many divisions does the pope have?” Josef Stalin is said to have once asked Winston Churchill, in a mocking reference to the Vatican’s lack of military strength. And so Vladimir Putin, in possession of a vast army of riot police, might ask of Russia’s opposition leader: “How many divisions does Alexei Navalny have?” But a conflict is not jus...