Julia Ioffe’s new blend of history and family biography takes on the contradictions of female selfhood in Soviet Russia, from ...

Reason's December special issue marks the 30th anniversary of the collapse of the Soviet Union. This story is part of our exploration of the global legacy of that evil empire, and our effort to be ...

The Cuban Missile Crisis was a major confrontation that brought the United States, and the Soviet Union close to war over the ...

In a moment considered the start of the dissident movement in the Soviet Union, hundreds of protesters demonstrated in Pushkin Square, in Moscow, for the writers to be given an open trial. Vicky ...

The World Socialist Web Site recently spoke with Stephen Wheatcroft, professorial fellow of Russian and Soviet history at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Wheatcroft is one of the world’s ...

Leading up to the 70th anniversary of Russia's victory over Nazi Germany on May 9, seemingly every Russian media outlet buzzed about the unveiling of the country's new premier tank, the Armata T-14.

On December 1, 1934, a disaffected, psychotic party worker stalked Sergei Kirov, the first secretary of the Leningrad Communist Party, as he walked the hall to his third-floor office and shot him in ...

Before the T-34’s success, the Soviet Union built a series of disastrous interwar prototypes, T-16, T-24, TG-1, and others.

The Second Italo-Ethiopian War and the Spanish Civil War offered Melva L. Price and her fellow female activists an opportunity to examine the links between racism and fascism Stationed in Lithuania, ...

Stephen F. Cohen, a scholar of Russian history whose ideas influenced the reform-minded Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev as he sought to introduce new democratic norms, and who was later seen as a ...

The demonizing of Soviet history by Hollywood has reached such a level that many people today have no doubts that the USSR was a true hell on earth. We are glad to offer you our rating of American, ...