Putin Gets a Snub in the Vast Wine Cellars of a Former Soviet Republic
The Russian president celebrated his 50th birthday at a winery in Moldova. After the invasion of Ukraine, it moved the ...
As Russia seeks influence in Africa, former students play central role
Going back to the days of the Cold War, many Africans studied in the Soviet Union and later Russia. They’re now among ...
America Gets a Taste of Glasnost
Soviet Russia opened up in 1988, but its freedom proved fleeting. We should guard ours vigilantly.
The looming Eurasian menace
Hal Brands is a professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, a senior fellow at the ...
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From Incarceration to Repatriation: German Prisoners of War in the Soviet Union
Grunewald significantly enhances understandings of the fate of Germans captured by the Soviet Union during World War II.
Historian explains how economics research stumbled under Soviet regime, while mathematics thrived
Political and ideological barriers can shape the progress of academic disciplines, warns Ivan Boldyrev. In a paper appearing ...
Poland rethinks offer to repatriate relatives of Soviet era deportees
Programme offering exiled Poles and their descendants residency is under review amid immigration security fears ...
Music Acts Like Pink Floyd and Donna Summers Banned from Soviet Union in the '80s? Here's the Truth
What do the Village People and KISS have in common, apart from elaborate stage costumes? Both acts were allegedly banned from ...
The cruelties of the Soviet Union as you’ve never read them before
Karl Schlögel’s dizzyingly excellent essays in The Soviet Century cover everything from the freezing Gulag to communist ...
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Jimmy Carter helped dismantle Soviet Union with focus on human rights
Jimmy Carter was a dark horse Democratic presidential candidate with little national recognition when he beat Republican ...
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M. N. Pokrovskii and the Origins of Soviet Historiography
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.