London sent the Hawker Hurricanes to the Soviet Union to help them fight against Nazi Germany. Residents share memories of their city, before its destruction in Russia's full-scale invasion.

“You’re next,” said a Russian historian I interviewed in 1993 about the Soviet Union’s collapse in late 1991. I was an American student in St. Petersburg, and he was referring to the ...

Lithuania became the first country to declare independence from the Soviet Union on March 11, 1991. Here is a quiz on countries that were part of the Soviet Union Published - March 11, 2025 05:10 ...

This project begins a series of the main events timed to the 80th anniversary of the Soviet nation’s Great Victory in the ...

The lessons to learn are: avoid war, and the drum-beating that precedes it. And avoid technocratic utopian groupthink; avoid ideologies masquerading as science. The Nazi Hunger Plan was devised by an ...

The Soviet Union was plunged into a power struggle among Stalin’s inner circle following the demise of the man who had led the USSR for nearly three decades. Khrushchev, emerging as a key player ...

Why are these huge bunkers needed today? The Soviet Union – the reason they were built in the first place – no longer exists. Does it really make sense to pour money into such expensive ...

Sofia Gubaidulina, 2021. She was part of a group of important composers in the Soviet Union, including Arvo Pärt, Alfred Schnittke and Edison Denisov, who found disfavor with the authorities but ...