In Russian history, the year 1937 has become synonymous with the worst mass repressions of the Soviet period. But it was also the year that, on Feb. 10, a dance company was founded in Moscow ...

Though few recognized it at the time, the papal election of Karol Wojtyla was the beginning of the end of the Soviet empire. Weigel notes that one person who did recognize the potential impact ...

The chunky 1951 Warszawa M-20 bears the serial number 000001 it had when it left the FSO Passenger Car Factory in Warsaw on Nov. 6 of that year, exactly 73 years ago. It is a relic of the period of ...

more equal relations between the sexes....The book should be read by all serious students of the Soviet period." Choice "Goldman's hard-hitting book traces the reversal of the Bolshevik ...

Church-state relations have undergone a number of changes during the seven decades of the existence of the Soviet Union. In the 1920s the state ... on the Church was again stepped up. In the Brezhev ...

During the Soviet period, punitive psychiatry was so widespread that one-fourth of dissidents accused of political crimes ...

The crimes of this period have not received as much attention as crimes committed during other phases of Afghanistan’s wars. The whole history of conflict in Afghanistan from the Soviet ...

Gershkovich was arrested in March 2023 while on a reporting trip to Yekaterinburg, making him the first foreign journalist ...

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 ...

On Sept. 23, Danone offered to pay some $283 million — $25 per share — to purchase the 76.6% of Lifeway Foods it does not ...

Georgian Dream has “embraced a positive or ambivalent outlook on the Soviet period” and done nothing to counter Russia’s “weaponisation of the image of Stalin tailored to the Georgian ...