Soviet Russia opened up in 1988, but its freedom proved fleeting. We should guard ours vigilantly.

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

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

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 ...

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

The Russian Ministry of Defense announced that it had succeeded in downing a Ukrainian Sukhoi Su-27 and other advanced ...

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.

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

On Dec. 30, 1922, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, or USSR, officially came into existence, as leaders gathered in ...

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

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 new paper, the historian of economics at Radboud University explores the complex history of ...