The citizens photographed by Boris Mikhailov in the last days of the Soviet Union evoke laughter and sympathy in a show at ...
It is 30 years since the tumultuous events of 1989, when the Berlin Wall fell, the Iron Curtain lifted and the Soviet Empire began to crumble. As part of a special series of reports on how Russia ...
the nations of the Soviet Empire produced a fascinating range of cars, trucks, and motorcycles that most Westerners never saw. On a recent visit to Bulgaria, I checked out an incredible museum of ...
The course probes the following questions: What did the 'Russian revolution mean for the multi-national empire created by the Romanovs? How far did the communist party manage to create a 'Soviet' ...
as well as this patrimony’s patchwork survival in the former republics of the Soviet empire today. Sometimes as decaying ruin, other times as an adaptive re-use project, this legacy — with its own ...
The following piece by Paul Huth (Program for International Peace and Security Research, University of Michigan) is a condensed version of the final chapter of the forthcoming Beyond the Soviet Threat ...