Mark Smith’s impressive history surveys life in the Soviet Union, and its advances and failures from Khrushchev to Gorbachev ...

Mark B Smith’s Exit Stalin tells the history of a Soviet society largely without protest, without violent repression, without ...

A timeline of Stalin's life, the man that oversaw the war machine that helped defeat Nazism and who was the supreme ruler of ...

In 1924, the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin unleashed its divide-and-rule policy to ethnically divide the Fergana Valley among the Uzbek Socialist Soviet Republic and the Kara-Kirgiz Autonomous ...

The Great Purge was a period in the history of the Soviet Union where Stalin eliminated the majority of the "Old Bolsheviks" ...

July 16 marked the 115th anniversary of the birth of Nathan Steinberger, a Jewish socialist and survivor of Stalin’s terror in the Soviet Union. He died 20 years ...

I have in the past received funding from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, the National Council for Eurasian and East European Research, the ACLS, and the National Endowment for the ...

While, in 1944, the Red Army is advancing towards Berlin, Stalin is already planning to incorporate Eastern Europe into his sphere of influence.

UNDER STRICT EMBARGO UNTIL 19:01 US EDT ON SUNDAY 20 TH JULY 2025 / 00:01 UK TIME (BST) ON MONDAY 21 ST JULY 2025 Overlooked diaries written by teenage boys in pre-war Soviet Russia reveal relatable ...