The Battle of Kursk was a catastrophic defeat for Germany; the Wehrmacht suffered around 200,000 casualties and lost nearly 700 tanks and 1,000 aircraft. These losses were irreplaceable.

In “Zbig,” Edward Luce tells the story of Zbigniew Brzezinski, a leading American strategist who had a notably eventful run ...

The head of Rossotrudnichestvo, Russia’s international assistance agency, has an ambitious plan for the Kremlin soft-power ...

The birthplace of U.S. President Donald Trump’s director of personnel has been the subject of media speculation — fuelled by ...

Russia Mikhail Gorbachev, Who Sank the Soviet Empire With His Own Glasnost, Dead at 91 OPENNESS The West was euphoric with his dramatic steps to end the Cold War.

Before the fall of the Iron Curtain and subsequent collapse of the Soviet Union during the 1989-1992 period, the nations of the Soviet Empire produced a fascinating range of cars, trucks, and ...

As the Soviet Union’s final leader, Mikhail Gorbachev dreamed of a “common European home,” but three decades later that tantalizing idea remains out of reach.

Thus during the course of operation of the First Five Year Plan the map of the internal sub-divisions of the Soviet Union was changed as strikingly from the previous Soviet map as the latter had been ...

IF we are much too near the recent tumultuous and tragic events in Poland and Hungary to write their history or to venture any predictions for the future in Eastern Europe, we can at least make a ...

National Archives and Records Administration The space race between the United States and the Soviet Union stepped up a gear on May 25, 1961, when American President John F. Kennedy announced that his ...

An interview with Diana T. Kudaibergen on power, identity, and nation-building in Kazakhstan.

This is a bombshell, putting to the lie Russian propaganda’s longstanding claim that some spiritual entity called Russia has ...