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 ...

Armenia's government on Thursday gave approval to a bill that calls for the country, once part of the Soviet Union, to launch ...

Political and ideological barriers can shape the progress of academic disciplines, warns Ivan Boldyrev. In a paper appearing ...

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

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 ...

Karl Schlögel’s dizzyingly excellent essays in The Soviet Century cover everything from the freezing Gulag to communist ...

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

(THE CONVERSATION) Former President Jimmy Carter, who died on Dec. 29, 2024, at age 100 at his home in Plains, Georgia, was a dark horse Democratic presidential candidate with little national ...

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.

By the late 1970s, the Soviet Union's economy and global influence were weakening. With the counsel of National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski, a Soviet expert, Carter exploited these ...