Foreign Affairs1d
From Incarceration to Repatriation: German Prisoners of War in the Soviet Union
Grunewald significantly enhances understandings of the fate of Germans captured by the Soviet Union during World War II.
Music Acts Like Pink Floyd and Donna Summers Banned from Soviet Union in the '80s? Here's the Truth
What do the Village People and KISS have in common, apart from elaborate stage costumes? Both acts were allegedly banned from ...
Historian explains how economics research stumbled under Soviet regime, while mathematics thrived
Political and ideological barriers can shape the progress of academic disciplines, warns Ivan Boldyrev. In a paper appearing ...
The cruelties of the Soviet Union as you’ve never read them before
Karl Schlögel’s dizzyingly excellent essays in The Soviet Century cover everything from the freezing Gulag to communist ...
Smithsonian Magazine11d
Discover the Story Behind a Legendary Exposé of the Brutality of the Soviet Union
Published on this day in 1973, "The Gulag Archipelago" drew on Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's experiences as a ...
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Jimmy Carter helped dismantle Soviet Union with focus on human rights
Jimmy Carter was a dark horse Democratic presidential candidate with little national recognition when he beat Republican ...
Foreign Affairs1d
M. N. Pokrovskii and the Origins of Soviet Historiography
White's highly readable biography portrays the life of Mikhail Pokrovskii, a Marxist historian, prominent early-­​twentieth-century Russian revolutionary, and close comrade of Lenin and Trotsky.
Arutz Sheva13d
Hanukkah in Soviet prisons
Because the Jews of the Soviet Union were not allowed to speak, the world believed that the flame of Judaism had died. And then we rose up and from inside the Leningrad courthouse we announced "Am ...
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OTD In Space – January 8: Soviet Union Launches 2nd Lunar Rover
On January 8, 1973, the Soviet Union launched the Luna 21 mission to land a rover on the moon. This was the second time that ...