A century on, Battleship Potemkin’s vision of oppression, courage and collective resistance still crackles with an energy ...

Soviet gymnast Larisa Latynina is filled with a mixed sense of wonder and trepidation when she watches the gravity-defying and often treacherous routines of Simone Biles as the American set out to ...

Explore the fascinating tale of the Kola Superdeep Borehole, a monumental scientific endeavor by the Soviet Union that aimed ...

Izabella Tabarovsky’s ‘Be a Refusenik’ offers a productive mindset and practical ideas for Jewish students facing ...

Brilliant figures such as Sergey Nikitovich Mergelyan (1928-2008) defined the 20th century as an era for extraordinary ...

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 ...

** When you buy products through the links on our site, we may earn a commission that supports NRA's mission to protect, preserve and defend the Second Amendment. ** Partisan bands had a rag-tag ...

Countless words will be dedicated in the following days to Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet leader who died Aug. 30 at the age of 91. But throughout his obituaries, two specific words will likely be ...

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.

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 ...

On December 15, 1937, at the height of the Great Terror in Stalin's Soviet Union, the ethnic cleansing of thousands of Greeks ...

Picking his way through the Soviet archives that Boris Yeltsin had just thrown open, in 1991 Tim Sebastian, a reporter for the London Times, came across an arresting memorandum. Composed in 1983 by ...