Some of the Stalin nostalgia may be attributable to the coincidence (okay, not really a coincidence) that Stalin led the ...

Vladimir Putin's army has carried out a large-scale reenactment of a Soviet invasion that led to Romania's post-war ...

The ultimatums Russia has put forward to Ukraine to end the war are reminiscent of the dark era of Soviet rule, states ...

The Soviet secret police were particularly brutal in Ukraine, given that it was a country with a long history of resistance ...

For 50 years, a 23-meter, 7.5-ton statue of Vadimir Lenin swept his arm out over Kyrgyzstan’s second city of Osh from a perch ...

And even wallpaper with primitive but touching examples of post ... tiles made from shellac – a valuable finishing stone in the late Soviet Union – have been preserved. There’s also a “department ...

Germany’s invasion of Poland in 1939 and of the Soviet Union in 1941 set off mass migrations of Polish Jews eastward. Precise figures are hard to come by, but hundreds of thousands of Polish ...

It was with Leonid Brezhnev’s coming to power in 1964 (he served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union till 1982 ... comes courtesy of Wallpaper* contributor Adam Štěch and ...

By April 1983, Samantha, now 10, was worried as Cold War tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union raised the threat of nuclear confrontation, as author Lena Nelson explains in ...

Fitzpatrick, a doyenne of Soviet historians, offers the lay reader a concise, chronological account of the Soviet Union premised on the notion that accidents, rather than inevitabilities, drive human ...

It was to be called the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. On Dec. 30, 1922, in a meeting at Moscow’s Bolshoi Theater of Communist delegates from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and the Caucasus ...