He is not the first to use this approach. American historian Steve Kotkin, in his ground-breaking 1995 book, Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as a Civilisation, depicted the Stalin years as a distinct ...

With great empathy for the Soviet people, the German-American historian Jochen Hellbeck deliberately opposes the efforts to ...

"Everyone was equal," the kerchiefed babushka of Eli from Russia — a YouTuber who documents everyday life and regional ...

This year, 2016, will mark the twentieth-fifth anniversary of the end of the Soviet Union from the political map of the world. A quarter of a century ago, the menace of Soviet-led communism, which had ...

EADaily, . We were part of the Soviet Union, and it is impossible to erase it. Abdulla Rasulov, Doctor of Historical Sciences ...

The Soviet Union is unsurpassed in the art of defense budgetry. The point of the game is not so much to lay out actual fiscal allocations as to demonstrate to outsiders the latest Kremlin ...

In the waning years of the Soviet Union, most of the citizens in that cold tyranny could see that their system was ...

Kosmos 482, a Venus probe launched by the Soviet Union in 1972, is expected to fall to Earth this weekend. Stay up to date on the spacecraft. See the stark beauty of the Soviet Union’s abandoned ...

TU 95 GettyImages 1139948302 USAF Interim Archives NATO air planners looking east during the Cold War faced a vast, ...

One of the many little-known facts about the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is that some 25% of its territory lies north of the Arctic Circle. The Soviet Arctic (some of which is south of the ...

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, who died on August 30 at the age of ninety-one, was a generous, kind-hearted man, as the BBC would like us to remember. The last Soviet leader, who presided... Mikhail ...