Many Americans know of Josef Stalin’s Terror of the late 1930s, during which more than 1 million people were arrested for ...

The secret Cold War role played by a giant radio telescope in the middle of the Cheshire countryside has been revealed.

In 1987, a teenager with limited flying experience managed to fly straight into the heart of the Soviet Union, evading one of ...

A Soviet machine gun team during World War II. After losing as many as 100,000 troops killed and wounded in Ukraine and forcibly drafting 300,000 unwilling men to replace them, the Russian army ...

A stunning juxtaposition of history and modern life, Transnistria exists as a time warp from before the Iron Curtain fell.

A Soviet spacecraft launched half a century ago is now on a trajectory that will bring it back toward Earth. Tracking ...

Over a 40-year period, up to 1989, the Soviet Union detonated 456 nuclear weapons in present-day Kazakhstan. A new documentary sees three generations of women speak about wounds and healing.

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The Soviet economy was the second largest in the world, but long queues and empty store shelves are the main things many people remember about it. Goods were cheap but there were constant shortages.

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The state took full responsibility for providing its citizens with daytime meals – the food was quick, cheap, and kept the engine running. People ate out in Imperial Russia too, but it was during the ...

It’s rare that we look to Soviet-era cinema to find positive queer representation, but surprisingly enough, one overlooked ...