On November 3rd, 1957, the Soviet Union made history by launching the first living creature into Earth’s orbit: not a human, ...

When you think ‘Tank Man’ the first image that comes to mind is that of the unknown solitary protester at Beijing’s Tiananmen ...

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

Nicole Hemmer, for one, has argued that American right-wingers increasingly jettisoned Reagan’s sunny optimism in favor of a ...

White's highly readable biography portrays the life of Mikhail Pokrovskii, a Marxist historian, prominent early-­​twentieth-century Russian revolutionary, and close comrade of Lenin and Trotsky.

Drawing on extensive new material, Nathans’ insightful history of Soviet dissidents introduces remarkable individuals who courageously and selflessly tried to pursue civil rights from the 1960s ...

Soviet Russia opened up in 1988, but its freedom proved fleeting. We should guard ours vigilantly.

Published on this day in 1973, "The Gulag Archipelago" drew on Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's experiences as a ...

Five Cambridge University graduates served as double agents, leaking highly classified information to the Soviet Union ...

In the early years of the republic, travel was an ordeal. So, Congress and the citizenry didn’t gather in Washington D.C. to ...

In 1949, the American Communist activist was invited by the Soviet government to give a huge concert in Moscow.