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

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

The Soviet soldier never saw him. Neither did the one after that, or the next, or the hundreds who followed. Simo Häyhä ...

Colin McDonald, who has died aged 95, was an English footballer who represented his country in goals at the 1958 World Cup ...

Discover Harry Dexter White's role in shaping the postwar global economy through the Bretton Woods Agreement and the ...

CIA turncoat Aldrich Ames, who betrayed Western intelligence assets to the Soviet Union and Russia, has died in a Maryland ...

Before power and terror defined him, Joseph Stalin was a young revolutionary in love. Kato Svanidze’s brief life and early ...

Estonian New Year cards trace a century of changing traditions, revealing how festivity survived even under political ...

We are now in one of those periods, which obliges the United States to rethink its role in the world, just as it was forced to do by the cataclysmic changes that followed the end of the Second World ...

Eighty-five years after Helsinki welcomed Nazi troops to the country, the Finnish ruling class is once again attempting to ...

December 30 marks a curious footnote in Soviet history that sounds almost absurd today: in 1932, Soviet authorities moved to ban or suppress publications and guidance labeled as “food for young ...