On April 22 the Soviet government decreed compulsory military training for workers and peasants who did not employ hired labour. This was the beginning of the Red Army. Its founder was Leon ...

Located in a wooded area near the village of Nagyvazsony in central Hungary, the base – nicknamed "Little Moscow" by locals – was a Soviet base abandoned in 1990. The Red Army may have kept a ...

and the role of civilian critics on Soviet military objectives. Other chapters explore the Red Army's erosion in Eastern Europe as well as the lessons of Afghanistan. To save content items to your ...

Bernstein, Frances 2015. Prosthetic Manhood in the Soviet Union at the End of World War II. Osiris, Vol. 30, Issue. 1, p. 113. Soviet Women in Combat explores the unprecedented historical phenomenon ...

They all have one thing in common, and it’s not just that they’re fast food restaurants… They all have red prominently in ...

Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin terrorised his own people, but for the first time a survey suggests that most Russians view him favourably. The respected Levada Center polled Russians aged 18 and ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, the former Soviet leader who brought the Cold War to a peaceful end, has died aged 91. Mr Gorbachev took power in 1985 and introduced reforms, as well as opening up the Soviet ...

But despite the name of its capital city remaining Ulan Bator (Red Hero), the country’s Soviet-linked past has been widely described as “forgotten.” Jonathan Addleton, who served as the U.S ...

The Soviet Union detonated its first atomic bomb ... The fireball, rising and revolving, turned orange, red. Then dark streaks appeared. Streams of dust, fragments of brick and board were drawn ...

An curved arrow pointing right. A tropical paradise replete with beaches, waterfalls, palm trees and exotic animals beckons in Germany. Story by Sophie-Claire Hoeller and editing by Carl Mueller ...

British politics today, and particularly Conservative politics, is repeating the mistakes of Soviet socialism, despite appearing its ideological opposite, argues Abby Innes in her new book. Dr Abby ...