For most of us in the West, until the fall of the Berlin Wall “Russia” was synonymous with the Soviet Union. Among the 15 constituent states of the Communist empire, Russia was always the pre-eminent ...
Explore the purpose and reality of Stalin’s Gulag, the Soviet Union’s vast system of forced labor camps. In this video, I ...
pt. I. The tsarist period. 1. Russian science before 1800. 2. Science in nineteenth-century Russia. 3. Russian intellectuals and Darwinism -- pt. II. Russian science and a Marxist revolution. 4. The ...
Kristina van Kuyck receives funding from the Irish Research Council Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship Project ID: GOIPG/2023/3686 As I was photographing Soviet-era monuments in the ...
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, and Soviet leader Josef Stalin at the Yalta Conference, Feb. 9, 1945. Credit: UK National Archives Eight decadess ago, on ...