A new study reveals that regions near Soviet GULAG camps are more prosperous today, thanks to the unintended legacy of ...
Grunewald significantly enhances understandings of the fate of Germans captured by the Soviet Union during World War II.
In the crash’s aftermath, Azerbaijan has unleashed rare and stinging criticism of Russia, with the country’s president saying ...
What do the Village People and KISS have in common, apart from elaborate stage costumes? Both acts were allegedly banned from ...
Karl Schlögel’s dizzyingly excellent essays in The Soviet Century cover everything from the freezing Gulag to communist ...
Information sharing, sanctions and prosecuting the perpetrators are important steps. But will they be enough to deter Moscow?
Published on this day in 1973, "The Gulag Archipelago" drew on Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's experiences as a ...
The legacy of Jimmy Carter's administration includes key roles in countering the Soviets and Islamist extremists in the ...
Reagan's greatest conflict was not with Iran, but the Soviet Union -- and he handled it much differently than Carter handled ...
On Dec. 30, 1922, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, or USSR, officially came into existence, as leaders gathered in ...