On January 8, 1973, the Soviet Union launched the Luna 21 mission to land a rover on the moon. This was the second time that ...

Armenia's government on Thursday gave approval to a bill that calls for the country, once part of the Soviet Union, to launch ...

The Russian Ministry of Defense announced that it had succeeded in downing a Ukrainian Sukhoi Su-27 and other advanced ...

Programme offering exiled Poles and their descendants residency is under review amid immigration security fears ...

Grunewald significantly enhances understandings of the fate of Germans captured by the Soviet Union during World War II.

What do the Village People and KISS have in common, apart from elaborate stage costumes? Both acts were allegedly banned from ...

Karl Schlögel’s dizzyingly excellent essays in The Soviet Century cover everything from the freezing Gulag to communist ...

By Masood Farivar President Ronald Reagan is often credited with defeating the Soviet Union, in part by helping Afghan rebels ...

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

Jimmy Carter was a dark horse Democratic presidential candidate with little national recognition when he beat Republican ...

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.