The Soviet Union built one of the most rapidly growing economies in history, but it also suffered one of the most dramatic ...

IF we are much too near the recent tumultuous and tragic events in Poland and Hungary to write their history or to venture any predictions for the future in Eastern Europe, we can at least make a ...

In July 1989, a 64-year-old Ukrainian man was executed. He was the last member of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army to be put to ...

THE ultimate criterion of Soviet success will be the dynamic power of the system to sustain its revolutionary momentum. That is a dictum which will be disputed by few historians. But to maintain that ...

World Gorbachev: the man who let the Soviet empire go. By. AFP. Published. August 30, 2022 ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The justification would have been the need to roll back the Soviet empire from its German and Eastern European conquests. In the spring of 1945, Winston ...

ALEXANDER NEMENOV/AFP via Getty ImagesFormer Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev has died at age 91, Russian state media reported on Tuesday. Long before he died, the final Soviet leader had been ...

Lindsey Graham warned Putin that Trump is ready to strike back hard, calling him the "Scottie Scheffler of American politics.

The Soviet Empire Didn’t Begin Until World War II Ended. September 16, 2021. By: Michael Peck. ... Instead, half of Germany was occupied by the Red Army, its people subjects of the Russian empire.

The author, whose previous books have showed him to be a shrewd prophet of Russian affairs, now turns in an up-todate survey of conditions within the Soviet Empire. Mr. Dallin’s findings, if ...

Mikhail Gorbachev changed the course of modern history by triggering the demise of the USSR and allowing Eastern Europe to free itself from Soviet rule, earning him accolades in the West but the ...