A declassified Cold War-era file from the CIA has gone viral over its coverage of a supposed clash between Soviet soldiers ...

The roots of ongoing economic turmoil are to be found in a strategic alliance between Chinese “socialism” and American ...

Rather than a new and climactic stage in a protracted ... to maintain the formal identification of the Soviet Union with the struggle against imperialism. Now, seeking to secure closer ties ...

The small, staid Imperial Academy of Sciences became the active, expanded U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences. The four or five prominent universities spawned 33 new ones scattered across the expanse of the ...

This course seeks to connect disparate threads into one historical and analytical narrative by focusing on major issues confronting the interpretation of the Soviet Union and its role in the ...

Despite its impressive nature, the Lira-class was in no real way a strategic game-changer for the Soviets in their bid to ...

Before the Nazis, German universities were among the best in the world. Step by step, the universities gave up their ...

Gorbachev justified his “restructuring” or perestroika by invoking the Soviet Union’s founding father ... Abraham Lincoln’s birthday and the new date fell between his and Washington ...

Germany’s invasion of Poland in 1939 and of the Soviet Union in 1941 set off mass migrations of Polish Jews eastward. Precise figures are hard to come by, but hundreds of thousands of Polish ...