In To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause, historian Benjamin Nathans sheds light on how the protest movement reinvented itself ...
Published on this day in 1973, "The Gulag Archipelago" drew on Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's experiences as a ...
On November 3rd, 1957, the Soviet Union made history by launching the first living creature into Earth’s orbit: not a human, ...
As Soviet troops approached, in January 1945, SS soldiers at Auschwitz-Birkenau forced some 60,000 prisoners to march west, ...
White's highly readable biography portrays the life of Mikhail Pokrovskii, a Marxist historian, prominent early-­â€‹twentieth-century Russian revolutionary, and close comrade of Lenin and Trotsky.
and the Soyuz spacecraft originally built for the Soviet manned Moon program was reapplied to ferry crews to space stations. Salyut 1, the first space station in history, reached orbit unmanned ...
It was the darkest time in Soviet history. But even during the war with Nazi Germany, Russian people didn’t lose their spirits. We present excerpts from personal diaries of 1941-1945 on how New ...