The following day, the 26th, the Soviet Union was no more. Dissolved was the 74-year reign of mass murder, the persecution of ...

Imagine waking up and your country just… doesn’t exist anymore. That’s what happened to nearly 300 million people when the ...

MOSCOW, July 9. /TASS/. The German embassy in Russia has issued apologies for posting a map with a wrong flag of the Soviet Union on social media. "The post about Germany’s 1945 division into four ...

Here's the standard high school history class summary of the Soviet Union: The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a communist state from 1922 to 1991 and was a big rival of the US from ...

The Cold War and its effects. Remarks delivered at the Jordan Center Workshop, New York University, November 1, 2024. My current reading of what Russia has become is based on my own experiences as an ...

Universidade de Santiago de Compostela provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation ES. When, exactly, did World War II end? The answer depends on where you are from. The war officially ...

After Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, many Western analysts and scholars who study post-Soviet countries expected those countries’ governments and publics to express solidarity with Ukraine ...

A man in Uzbekistan was given a parole-like sentence on September 3 after a court declared him guilty of “encroachment on the Constitutional Order of the Republic of Uzbekistan” for his activities ...

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