A study mapping the link between gulags and regional growth in Russia can teach us something about reviving our own left ...

Political and ideological barriers can shape the progress of academic disciplines, warns Ivan Boldyrev. In a paper appearing ...

December 30th has witnessed a plethora of significant events throughout history, shaping the world in various ways. One of ...

By the late 1970s, the Soviet Union's economy and global influence were weakening. With the counsel of National Security ...

Drawing on extensive new material, including unpublished diaries, private letters, and KGB interrogation transcripts, this insightful history of Soviet dissidents ... for the eventual collapse of the ...

When our fathers, Michael and Robert, were 10 and 6, their parents Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were executed by the US government after being found guilty of spying for the Soviet Union.

Over coffee, the agents told Fainberg that they knew about his adventures in the former Soviet Union, including smuggling ... “I do think there’s probably some lessons [the cartels] took ...

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, newly independent Armenia became one of Russia’s closest allies, joining the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) and aligning its economic ...

Since emerging from the collapsing Soviet Union as an independent state in 1991 ... Georgia becomes part of the Russian Empire. 1879 - History's best-known Georgian, future Soviet leader Iosif ...

The situation unfolded last Thursday during a U.S. history lesson about the invention of the cotton gin and slavery. Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) confirmed Thursday, that during the lesson ...

In this provocative book, both witty and profoundly serious, he provides a human-scale history of the causes and consequences of rising temperatures in the Middle East. Starting in the early twentieth ...