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

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 ...

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

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

Even if you don't participate, you've likely heard of Dry January at this point. The international month of sobriety is ...

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 ...

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

The fact that Lewis volunteered to serve in the war lends his October 1939 sermon a greater moral authority. That address, ...

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

Political and ideological barriers can shape the progress of academic disciplines, warns Ivan Boldyrev. In a new paper, the historian of economics at Radboud University explores the complex history of ...