Germany’s invasion of Poland in 1939 and of the Soviet Union in 1941 set off mass migrations of Polish Jews eastward. Precise figures are hard to come by, but hundreds of thousands of Polish ...

During the Cold War, many radical new designs in submarines were crafted by both the United States and their rivals in the Soviet Union. In some respects, however, the Soviet Red Navy had the more ...

a pioneering Soviet engineer who kick-started Soviet Union's early space adventure. The Russian leader was speaking to university students about the country's space policy when he mentioned the ...

We in the Soviet Union think that the matter is considerably more complicated than that. In the Soviet Union economic planning is not regarded as a social mechanism by itself, but only as an essential ...

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The Soviet Union built one of the most rapidly growing economies in history, but it also suffered one of the most dramatic collapses. From the 1920s to the 1980s, the USSR’s centrally planned ...

Two decades ago, Russian American anthropologist Alexei Yurchak coined the term “hypernormalisation” to describe the absurd and surreal reality of the Soviet Union during its final two decades.

Piers Brendon examines how the culture of Soviet spycraft shaped his thinking. Piers Brendon - Tinker, Tailor, Sleeper, Troll Piers Brendon: Tinker, Tailor, Sleeper, Troll - The Illegals: Russia’s ...

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During the Cold War, both the Soviet Union and the US were thinking up horrendous ways to win the conflict. Following the conclusion of World War II, which was brought to an abrupt end through the ...

It was 1938, and the Soviet Union sought to protect the city of Leningrad from a possible German attack on the eve of World War II. But there was one little thing that prevented them from creating a ...

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