Are Soviet publications protected by copyright?

Question by Randy: Are Soviet publications protected by copyright, even the ones they stole from us?
I know that they took the wizard of oz, renamed the characters and published more books than Braun ever did. They did this with a pack of other stuff and never got taken to task. Is it thus legal for the US to take Soviet publications and reprint them without paying authors rights?

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Answer by ron_mexico
Under U.S. law, works published abroad are eligible for U.S. copyright protection. See the chart below for more details.

http://copyright.cornell.edu/resources/publicdomain.cfm

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