This video examines how Joseph Stalin rose from obscure revolutionary to absolute ruler of the Soviet Union and reshaped the ...

Russia's failure to critically confront the mass crimes of the Stalin era is one of the key preconditions for the war against ...

Wars in Ukraine and in the Middle East are reshaping global politics. In The Dark Side of the Earth, exiled Russian ...

The German-American historian Jochen Hellbeck has written an important book. In clear and engaging language and with great empathy for the Soviet people, it deliberately opposes the efforts to ...

Eric Lusito crossed the former Soviet Union to explore vast scientific sites, some of which have been deserted for years, for ...

When, exactly, did World War II end? The answer depends on where you are from. The war officially ended in the early hours of May 7 1945, when General Jodl signed Germany’s unconditional surrender at ...

When Soviet president and Communist party secretary Mikhail Gorbachev introduced the policies of perestroika (reconstruction) and glasnost (openness) in the mid-1980s, it marked the beginning of ...

On the facade of an apartment block in Tajikistan's capital Dushanbe, a giant mosaic depicting cosmonauts and engineers ...