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Soviet Union

• June 11 -- Gorbachev's "Bold and Brilliant" Perestroika
Thom Shanker interviews Mikhail Gorbachev and gives the Soviet leader the credit for ending the Cold War: "As Mr. Reagan's obituaries uniformly proclaim, the late president won the cold war, but historians agree that the outcome would have been impossible had any man other than Mr. Gorbachev been sitting behind the Kremlin's red-brick walls and across the negotiating table."

• March 9 -- Still Missing the Soviet Union
Russia reporter Seth Mydans again notes how much is missed from the days of Communism: "Job security and free vacations disappeared, along with subsidized housing, education, medical care and social services."

• February 5 -- Seth Mydans in Stalinland
The last surviving resident of a central Russian village longs for the good old days of the Soviet Union, writes Seth Mydans: "In his younger years, Mr. Bykov was a soldier, a janitor and a plumber, and the world wasn't such a bad place." Bykov grew up under Stalin.

• January 22 -- "Tainted" by "Cold War Paranoia"
Theatre critic Margo Jefferson takes a pro forma liberal shot at "cold war paranoia."

• January 13 -- Communist East Germany Not All Bad
Richard Bernstein pens "Warm, Fuzzy Feelings for East Germany's Gray Old Days," a playful look at Communist nostalgia in East Germany: "All this has given rise to a sort of East German post-mortem feeling that maybe the East had its good aspects after all, especially a certain economic security and stability, even if your best vacation option was Bulgaria."

• January 13 -- Hot For Communism in the Arctic
Nostalgia for Communism in Arctic Russia: "Victor…said the main problem was the long-gone stability of an earlier era of affordable health care, free higher education and housing, and the promise of a comfortable retirement--things now beyond his reach."

• January 6 -- Times Touts Another Marvelous Marxist
Dinitia Smith talks to "unrepentant" Marxist critic Terry Eagleton in Saturday's Times and lets him defend Marxism against what Smith calls "the familiar litany of crimes."

• December 11 -- Everything's Free Under Communism
Stephen Holden's review of a documentary about the politics of electricity in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia calls the republic a former "constituent of the Soviet Union" and that under Communism power was "free."

• November 3 -- We Miss Communism
"For the vast majority of Russians, life is worse than it was in Soviet times."

• August 26 -- Coddling a Cuddly Communist Historian

• July 28 -- Gorbachev Still A Cold War Hero
The Times again hails former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev as the man who ended the Cold War, not mentioning how Gorbachev tried to roll back the revolution in Lithuania and other Soviet satellites.

• June 19 -- Reprieving the Rosenbergs
A Times editorial, “Remembering the Rosenbergs,” marks the 50th anniversary of the execution of the Soviet spies by admitting Julius Rosenberg was an atomic spy -- but then claims the couple were victims of an “injustice” wrought by “anti-Communist hysteria.”

• June 17 -- Bears On Ice
Another victim of the fall of Communism.

• June 10 -- Revoking A Blood-Stained Pulitzer
Will notorious pro-Stalinist Times reporter Walter Duranty finally lose his Pulitzer Prize? The New York Sun reports a new push to revoke Duranty’s 1932 Pulitzer for his Russia coverage.

• June 10 -- “Ashcroft = McCarthy,” Take 17
Bruce Weber’s review of a play about a family of 1950’s Communists in Brooklyn throws John Ashcroft into the mix: “Stalin may inevitably conjure up thoughts of Saddam Hussein, and McCarthyites might spur comparisons to the Ashcroft Justice Department…”

• April 21 -- Just What Russia Needs: More Planning
Sabrina Tavernise misses the Iron Curtain: “In the chaotic changes after the Soviet Union's collapse that widened the gap between rich and poor, early 1990's idealism hardened into sour hopelessness and a sense of futility.”

• March 10 -- Walter Duranty, the Times' Useful Idiot
Russian dictator Josef Stalin may have been poisoned, the Times' Serge Schmemann noted with satisfaction in the "Editorial Observer" section of Monday's edition. But he went on to admonish that Stalin "was not always the same demon in our eyes that he is today," pointing out the Times itself ran a report on Stalin's death that made no mention of the purges or the gulag. But the career of Walter Duranty, Times' man in Moscow during the 1930s, proves the paper's ignorance of Stalinist reality wasn't limited to one obituary.