From its initial creation in 1922, the Soviet Union was perhaps the most ambitious political experiment in human history. But ...

The Soviet Union wasn’t just authoritarian — it was structurally bizarre. Daily life blended advanced science with ...

The often misunderstood history of the Soviet dissident movement. In To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause, historian Benjamin Nathans sheds light on how the protest movement reinvented itself at key ...

This video explores the complex history of women in the Soviet Union, tracing their journey from early voting rights in the 20th century to the enduring realities of a male-dominated social hierarchy.

A new book explores the legacy of the Soviet Union’s human spaceflight program Diane Tedeschi Yuri Gagarin’s status as an icon is evident in Russia’s many memorials for the pioneering cosmonaut, ...

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 ...

The U.S. took for granted during the Cold War that Soviet foreign policy was driven by the tenets of Marxism-Leninism toward imperial expansion and subversion. Joseph Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev, Leonid ...

Throughout much of history, the Ukrainian people have suffered under ruthless tyrants. Like a man-made famine engineered by the Soviet government and Joseph Stalin, killing millions of innocent people ...

On the night of 19 January the Soviet army occupied the cities of Azerbaijan and an unprecedented massacre took place ...