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.
Even if you don't participate, you've likely heard of Dry January at this point. The international month of sobriety is ...
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.
The Russian Ministry of Defense announced that it had succeeded in downing a Ukrainian Sukhoi Su-27 and other advanced ...
On Dec. 30, 1922, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, or USSR, officially came into existence, as leaders gathered in ...
Karl Schlögel’s dizzyingly excellent essays in The Soviet Century cover everything from the freezing Gulag to communist ...
Reagan's greatest conflict was not with Iran, but the Soviet Union -- and he handled it much differently than Carter handled ...
Published on this day in 1973, "The Gulag Archipelago" drew on Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's experiences as a ...
The move was connected with, but not required by, the expiration at the end of 2024 of Russia’s contract with Ukraine for ...
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 ...