As Russia seeks influence in Africa, former students play central role
Going back to the days of the Cold War, many Africans studied in the Soviet Union and later Russia. They’re now among ...
Poland rethinks offer to repatriate relatives of Soviet era deportees
Programme offering exiled Poles and their descendants residency is under review amid immigration security fears ...
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Russia Claims to Have Shot Down Ukrainian Su-27 'Flanker' on New Year's Day
The Russian Ministry of Defense announced that it had succeeded in downing a Ukrainian Sukhoi Su-27 and other advanced ...
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From Incarceration to Repatriation: German Prisoners of War in the Soviet Union
Grunewald significantly enhances understandings of the fate of Germans captured by the Soviet Union during World War II.
Music Acts Like Pink Floyd and Donna Summers Banned from Soviet Union in the '80s? Here's the Truth
What do the Village People and KISS have in common, apart from elaborate stage costumes? Both acts were allegedly banned from ...
Azerbaijani Anger Over Plane Crash Grows, in Deepening Schism With Russia
In the crash’s aftermath, Azerbaijan has unleashed rare and stinging criticism of Russia, with the country’s president saying ...
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How Carter's covert aid to Afghan rebels redefined his foreign policy record
By Masood Farivar President Ronald Reagan is often credited with defeating the Soviet Union, in part by helping Afghan rebels ...
The cruelties of the Soviet Union as you’ve never read them before
Karl Schlögel’s dizzyingly excellent essays in The Soviet Century cover everything from the freezing Gulag to communist ...
Jimmy Carter deserves some credit for winning the Cold War
The legacy of Jimmy Carter's administration includes key roles in countering the Soviets and Islamist extremists in the ...
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M. N. Pokrovskii and the Origins of Soviet Historiography
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.