Arms race Quote by Masha Gessen

I was very good in math and physics. In the Soviet time, we had a lot of Olympic-style competitions for different disciplines: I was…

— Oleg Deripaska

“If political scientists couldn’t predict the downfall of the Soviet Union—perhaps the most important event in the latter half of the twentieth century—then what…

— Nate Silver

The Soviet experience was much worse than experts in the West had thought. That discovery had a tremendous impact both on the intellectual community…

— Milton Friedman

For 40 years we were led to think of the Russians as godless, materialistic and an evil empire. When the Cold War ended, we…

— Norman Mailer

What did in the Soviet Union was the Soviet Union.

— Robert Dallek

My hypothesis is that for people who are both trained and inclined to think in rigorously logical ways, it is particularly difficult to adapt…

— Masha Gessen

“We often like to think of World War II as a triumph of freedom over totalitarianism. We conveniently forget that the Soviet Union was…

— Paul Graham

The rise of the Soviet school to the summit of world chess is a logical result of socialist cultural development.

— Alexander Kotov

I thought that in general we in the United States were too optimistic in believing that the Soviets might alter what had been for…

— Anonymous

I spent my life studying communism and Soviet systems.

— Madeleine Albright

Now that the Cold War is over with, it's kind of hard to take the Soviet Union seriously. We won, period. We ran them…

— John Mearsheimer

The demise of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century.

— Vladimir Putin