During the Soviet era, the city was off-limits to foreign visitors, and much of what happened there remained classified.

The story of the Soviet leader’s time in power, his policies against Jews, and his relationship with Israel and Zionism ...

Boris Kagarlitsky's The Long Retreat provides a necessary Marxist analysis of the Soviet tragedy, says Walden Bello ...

Belarus’s Lukashenko calls Putin his “elder brother,” but over his 30-year rule he’s balanced close ties to Moscow with ...

"You're next," said a Russian historian I interviewed in 1993 about the Soviet Union's collapse in late 1991. I was an ...

Hundreds of thousands of foreigners served in the Wehrmacht, most famously the Vlasov Army.

Kyiv,” at the Ukrainian Museum, the revolutionary artist—a star of the avant-garde while the Soviet Union still permitted one ...

Legendary avant-garde composer Sofia Gubaidulina has died in Germany, where she spent more than 30 years of her life after ...

Blacklisted at home but finding acclaim abroad, she sought to bridge East and West, the sacred and the secular, in vivid, ...