“It was very striking to me the ways in which the Soviet past reverberated in the present,” Tyler Kirk said, discussing his his travels in Russia. “It was very present there.” Kirk, a tenured history ...

The World Socialist Web Site recently spoke with Stephen Wheatcroft, professorial fellow of Russian and Soviet history at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Wheatcroft is one of the world’s ...

For most of us in the West, until the fall of the Berlin Wall “Russia” was synonymous with the Soviet Union. Among the 15 ...

December 30 marks a curious footnote in Soviet history that sounds almost absurd today: in 1932, Soviet authorities moved to ban or suppress publications and guidance labeled as “food for young ...

Last Friday, Russia’s prison service announced that Alexei Navalny, a Russian anti-corruption activist and the country’s leading opposition figure, was dead. On Saturday, his team confirmed the news ...

The year is 1936. Dmitry Sergeevich Sechenov, a professor at the Soviet Academy of Medical Sciences, has created a unique electronic storage device. Little does he know that his invention is the first ...

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 ...

Adopting principles of glasnost and perestroika, he weighed the legacy of seven decades of Communist rule and set a new course, presiding over the end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the ...

A pro-Kremlin lawmaker spawned a tsunami of scorn in Russia this week by alleging that Soviet rock star Viktor Tsoi's Perestroika-era anthems were composed by CIA operatives trying to destabilize the ...