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 ...
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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.
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 ...
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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.
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Russia Claims to Have Shot Down Ukrainian Su-27 'Flanker' on New Year's Day
The Russian Ministry of Defense announced that it had succeeded in downing a Ukrainian Sukhoi Su-27 and other advanced ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
Jimmy Carter’s lasting Cold War legacy: His human rights focus helped dismantle the Soviet Union
Former President Jimmy Carter, who died on Dec. 29, 2024, at age 100 at his home in Plains, Georgia, was a dark horse ...
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Jimmy Carter helped dismantle Soviet Union with focus on human rights
By the late 1970s, the Soviet Union's economy and global influence were weakening. With the counsel of National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski, a Soviet expert, Carter exploited these ...