During the Soviet era, the Holocaust was concealed behind the phrase "peaceful Soviet citizens" to erase the identity of the ...

"Everyone was equal," the kerchiefed babushka of Eli from Russia — a YouTuber who documents everyday life and regional ...

The often misunderstood history of the Soviet dissident movement. In To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause, historian Benjamin Nathans sheds light on how the protest movement reinvented itself at key ...

Any child of the 1980s and any sports fan can tell you the story of the “Miracle on Ice.” The ragtag band of rookie hockey players brought together by the United States for the 1980 Lake Placid Winter ...

A new book explores the legacy of the Soviet Union’s human spaceflight program Diane Tedeschi Yuri Gagarin’s status as an icon is evident in Russia’s many memorials for the pioneering cosmonaut, ...

One of the many little-known facts about the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is that some 25% of its territory lies north of the Arctic Circle. The Soviet Arctic (some of which is south of the ...

Amid the industrial warfare of the Second World War, battlefield performance depended on precise logistics and the ability to ...

Put yourself in his position. You’ve just led a 6.5-million-man army across half a continent, ending four years of brutal war ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - On this day in history, in 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the world’s first artificial satellite, officially making the Space Age. The 184-pound sphere circled the ...

Putin will lay flowers at the Soviet pilots’ section of Fort Richardson National Cemetery after his Alaska summit with Trump. The graves are tied to the WWII Lend-Lease Program, when U.S. and Soviet ...