Mikhail Zygar says the Soviet Union’s collapse was only a temporary win for democracy

Wars in Ukraine and in the Middle East are reshaping global politics. In The Dark Side of the Earth, exiled Russian journalist Mikhail Zygar traces the origins of these conflicts to the end of the ...
The Economist

The history of Moscow helps explain Russia’s pathologies

But as Mr Morrison shows in his technicolour chronicle of the city, beneath the petro-funded sheen, Moscow is a domain of ...
insider.si.edu

Science in Russia and the Soviet Union : a short history / Loren R. Graham

pt. I. The tsarist period. 1. Russian science before 1800. 2. Science in nineteenth-century Russia. 3. Russian intellectuals and Darwinism -- pt. II. Russian science and a Marxist revolution. 4. The ...
Henry Stewart History on MSN

Stalin made the USSR a superpower at a catastrophic human cost

This video examines how Joseph Stalin rose from obscure revolutionary to absolute ruler of the Soviet Union and reshaped the ...
The Conversation

SETI’s ‘Noah’s Ark’ – a space historian explores how the advent of radio astronomy led to the USSR’s search for extraterrestrial life

The planetary radar, built in 1960 in Crimea, from which the Morse signal ‘MIR, Lenin, USSR’ was sent in November 1962. National Radio Astronomy Observatory Archive As humans began to explore outer ...
The National Interest

82 Years Ago, the Soviet Union Shattered the Nazi Empire at Kursk

The Battle of Kursk was a catastrophic defeat for Germany; the Wehrmacht suffered around 200,000 casualties and lost nearly 700 tanks and 1,000 aircraft. These losses were irreplaceable. The Battle of ...
Military.com

The Finnish Sniper Who Killed Over 500 Soviet Soldiers, the Most Confirmed Kills in Military History

Simo Häyhä, the Finnish sniper who killed hundreds of Soviets during the Winter War, aiming his rifle while wearing his winter camouflage. (Wikimedia Commons) The Soviet soldiers never saw him. Their ...