“It was very striking to me the ways in which the Soviet past reverberated in the present,” Tyler Kirk said, discussing his his travels in Russia. “It was very present there.” Kirk, a tenured history ...

MOSCOW -- The Russian Orthodox Church called on government authorities this month to condemn the Soviet communist regime. It's odd that the church should think about this now: It's been two decades ...

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 ...

Soviet machines are a special interest of mine, which is why I was surprised I'd never heard the tragic tale of Aeroflot Flight 5143—the worst commercial airline disaster in Soviet history until today ...

Designed to be apolitical, the attraction offers whiz-bang tech without the agency’s brutal past Cool Finds A report from Yahoo News lays out how a network of agents detected Soviet operations on the ...

Loren Goldner reviews John Marrot's "The October Revolution in Prospect and Retrospect: Interventions in Russian and Soviet History" in Insurgent Notes #7.

In this prelude to Operation Barbarossa, Kings and Generals explores how Hitler and the German High Command prepared to ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The history of Soviet era weapons and warfare is brimming with interesting tales of success, failure, and weird human behavior. The MiG-25 had ...

DULUTH — Especially around the holidays, nostalgia can seem simple. Thoughts drift back to younger years, snowy mornings opening presents by the fire, all that jazz. In fact, nostalgia is complex and ...

Any child of the 1980s and any sports fan can tell you the story of the “Miracle on Ice.” The ragtag band of rookie hockey players brought together by the United States for the 1980 Lake Placid Winter ...