Going back to the days of the Cold War, many Africans studied in the Soviet Union and later Russia. They’re now among ...

Soviet Russia opened up in 1988, but its freedom proved fleeting. We should guard ours vigilantly.

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

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

It was as if the West’s central philosophical commitment to limited government was extirpated by a crude economic determinism ...

Grunewald significantly enhances understandings of the fate of Germans captured by the Soviet Union during World War II.

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.

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

On Dec. 30, 1922, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, or USSR, officially came into existence, as leaders gathered in ...

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

Karl Schlögel’s dizzyingly excellent essays in The Soviet Century cover everything from the freezing Gulag to communist ...