One of the most incredible stories to come out of World War II is the sole veteran to emerge from the war with medals from ...

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

Before the fall of the Iron Curtain and subsequent collapse of the Soviet Union during the 1989-1992 period, the nations of ...

December 30th has witnessed a plethora of significant events throughout history, shaping the world in various ways. One of ...

The magazine's most-read articles of the year included a close-up look at the adorable yet venomous pygmy slow loris, a profile of a little-known 20th-century street photographer and a majestic ...

Contemporary European History, Vol. 24, Issue. 3, p. 333. Soviet Women in Combat explores the unprecedented historical phenomenon of Soviet young women's en masse volunteering for World War II combat ...

Throughout the Russo-Ukrainian war, each side has cast its enemy as heirs to the Nazis of World War II. In Ukraine, this has ...

When the Soviet Union tore down the Berlin Wall, it was considered the end of the Cold War. That war, which lasted a ...

Beginning in the late ’80s, an efflorescence of truth under the leaders Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin had revealed the full extent of the Soviet Union’s horrific crimes against its own ...

Forty-four years later, it’s even more apparent President Jimmy Carter made the wrong decision to call for a U.S. boycott of the 1980 Moscow Olympics.

Elements in Soviet and Post-Soviet History provide timely, concise, authoritative and distinctive overviews of the post-Soviet space. By providing parallel histories of the fifteen successor states, ...