In a moment considered the start of the dissident movement in the Soviet Union, hundreds of protesters demonstrated in Pushkin Square, in Moscow, for the writers to be given an open trial. Vicky ...

Few moments in history shocked the world like the fall of the Soviet Union. Once a superpower commanding half the globe, the ...

Was the end of the USSR inevitable — or the result of human decisions? This video dissects the economic decay, political paralysis, and personal choices that brought down one of history’s superpowers.

The Cuban Missile Crisis was a major confrontation that brought the United States, and the Soviet Union close to war over the ...

The often misunderstood history of the Soviet dissident movement. In To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause, historian Benjamin Nathans sheds light on how the protest movement reinvented itself at key ...

This course is available on the BA in History, BA in Social Anthropology, BSc in History and Politics, BSc in International Relations, BSc in International Relations and History, BSc in Social ...

On October 4, 1957, the erstwhile Soviet Union sent Sputnik-1 into outer space. The launch of the world’s first artificial ...

Russia and its former Soviet Union have never been afraid to supersize military hardware. Naturally, the balance between intimidatingly powerful and largely impractical can be difficult to master. The ...

This is an edition of the revamped Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here. For many who were purged during Stalin’s reign in the Soviet Union, one erasure ...

Lu Shaye, China’s controversial ambassador to France, caused a diplomatic uproar over the weekend, as he implied that post-Soviet countries did not really have a right to exist in international law.

Could the moon landing have been an international program? Roger D. Launius President John F. Kennedy and Chairman Nikita Khrushchev during their meeting in Vienna, Austria. National Archives and ...