In the latter half of the 20th century, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Soviet Union) was a massive state that, alongside the United States, divided the world and exerted influence globally ...

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 ...

World History Series: "The End of the Cold War and the Collapse of the Soviet Union," Episode 2Prologue: Political Debate on ...

This year is the 100 th anniversary of the death of the Soviet Union’s first communist leader, whose legacy in Russia and former Soviet republics is complicated When Erin Hutchinson, an assistant ...

To mark the 85th anniversary of Operation Barbarossa—Nazi Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union and the start of the most barbaric war of annihilation in history—we are republishing here an article ...

Simo Häyhä, the Finnish sniper who killed hundreds of Soviets during the Winter War, aiming his rifle while wearing his winter camouflage. (Wikimedia Commons) The Soviet soldiers never saw him. Their ...

The Soviet remaking of the Pale Jews. The trials and tribulations of a tumultuous period. Jewish children in the Soviet Union’s youth movement in Minsk. Established in 1791 as the exclusive zone where ...

While most Georgians support closer integration with Western Europe, many people in industrial areas that collapsed along with Communism in the 1990s express nostalgia for the old Soviet prosperity.