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 ...
A new study reveals that regions near Soviet GULAG camps are more prosperous today, thanks to the unintended legacy of ...
The Russian Ministry of Defense announced that it had succeeded in downing a Ukrainian Sukhoi Su-27 and other advanced ...
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 ...
Political and ideological barriers can shape the progress of academic disciplines, warns Ivan Boldyrev. In a paper appearing ...
Karl Schlögel’s dizzyingly excellent essays in The Soviet Century cover everything from the freezing Gulag to communist ...
Jimmy Carter was a dark horse Democratic presidential candidate with little national recognition when he beat Republican ...
Published on this day in 1973, "The Gulag Archipelago" drew on Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's experiences as a ...
Reagan's greatest conflict was not with Iran, but the Soviet Union -- and he handled it much differently than Carter handled ...