Overlooked diaries written by teenage boys in pre-war Soviet Russia reveal relatable perspectives on love, lust, boredom, ...

The death of Vadim Medvedev marks the quiet end of an era when Communist apparatchiks ruled the Soviet Union from behind ...

Avner Landes discusses his new book 'The Delegation,' an account of the adventures - and dark fates - of an actor and poet ...

July 16 marks the 115th anniversary of the birth of Nathan Steinberger, a Jewish socialist and survivor of Stalin's terror in ...

From 1925, when the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic was declared a part of the Soviet Union, one photographer was able to capture the “radical social surgery” enacted by the Bolsheviks that forever ...

The Soviet Union, or the USSR, was one of the most powerful and mysterious superpowers in history, with a lasting impact on ...

It’s hard not to see a straight line between Stalin’s version of photoshopping and the purge of the Pentagon archives in 2025 ...

Mamdani has already begun working to allay some anxiety, meeting with billionaires (whom he once said “shouldn’t exist”), ...

The Soviet Union’s Tupolev Tu-4 strategic bomber, which entered service in 1949, represented one of the most glaring episodes of intellectual property theft in aviation history.

While they are impossible to measure, emotions such as liking or hatred, admiration or contempt—the quotidian stuff of human ...

The Soviet ‘illegals’ program trained and embedded spies who lived surreptitiously in the West – just like TV’s The Americans. Who were they, and did they really go away?

Eighty years ago, on July 17, 1945, the last of the Second World War’s “Big Three” conferences was convened at Potsdam, near Berlin, Germany, in the Cecilienhof Palace. The key issues discussed and ...