The often misunderstood history of the Soviet dissident movement. In To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause, historian Benjamin Nathans sheds light on how the protest movement reinvented itself at key ...
A new book explores the legacy of the Soviet Union’s human spaceflight program Diane Tedeschi Yuri Gagarin’s status as an icon is evident in Russia’s many memorials for the pioneering cosmonaut, ...
Since the breakup of The Soviet Union in 1991, its former republics have attempted to take different political directions. Most came together in the Commonwealth of Independent States (C.I.S.), which ...
In the spring of 1945, the U.S. Navy quietly handed over 149 warships to the Soviet Union at a remote Alaskan outpost, ...
The impossible story of communism. How do you tell the history of a global movement in all its hope and contradiction? The story of communism is one of the greatest tragedies in modern history. The ...
MOSCOW, Nov 18 (Reuters) - A call by President Vladimir Putin for a new textbook that reconciles differences over Russia's past has left him facing accusations of copying Soviet leaders by rewriting ...
The Soviet Union’s Tupolev Tu-4 strategic bomber, which entered service in 1949, represented one of the most glaring episodes of intellectual property theft in aviation history. Although the Cold War ...
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