The Russian president celebrated his 50th birthday at a winery in Moldova. After the invasion of Ukraine, it moved the ...

On January 8, 1973, the Soviet Union launched the Luna 21 mission to land a rover on the moon. This was the second time that ...

What do the Village People and KISS have in common, apart from elaborate stage costumes? Both acts were allegedly banned from ...

Grunewald significantly enhances understandings of the fate of Germans captured by the Soviet Union during World War II.

Jimmy Carter was a dark horse Democratic presidential candidate with little national recognition when he beat Republican ...

Karl Schlögel’s dizzyingly excellent essays in The Soviet Century cover everything from the freezing Gulag to communist ...

Political and ideological barriers can shape the progress of academic disciplines, warns Ivan Boldyrev. In a paper appearing ...

White's highly readable biography portrays the life of Mikhail Pokrovskii, a Marxist historian, prominent early-­​twentieth-century Russian revolutionary, and close comrade of Lenin and Trotsky.

Published on this day in 1973, "The Gulag Archipelago" drew on Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's experiences as a ...

Programme offering exiled Poles and their descendants residency is under review amid immigration security fears ...

December 30th has witnessed a plethora of significant events throughout history, shaping the world in various ways. One of ...

By the late 1970s, the Soviet Union's economy and global influence were weakening. With the counsel of National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski, a Soviet expert, Carter exploited these ...