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.

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

Programme offering exiled Poles and their descendants residency is under review amid immigration security fears ...

What do the Village People and KISS have in common, apart from elaborate stage costumes? Both acts were allegedly banned from ...

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 ...

Jimmy Carter was a dark horse Democratic presidential candidate with little national recognition when he beat Republican ...

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.

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

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 ...