An example of this conflict occurred in the 1920s when Trofim Lysenko, a Soviet biologist, rejected natural selection in favor of acquired characteristics. Lysenko believed that characteristics could ...

The future of Greece after World War II was decided between Winston Churchill and Josef Stalin, who met secretly in Moscow.

The P-39 Airacobra was dismissed by the U.S. as underpowered, yet it became the Soviet Union’s most effective dogfighter. With 37 mm cannons and low-altitude agility, Soviet aces like Pokryshkin ...

In the frozen forests of Courland, 1945, Major Sepp Brandner’s outgunned StuG brigade stood alone against the Soviet Union’s ...

Aufheben, 'What was the USSR?' Part I: Trotsky and state capitalism; Part II: Russia as a non-mode of production; Part III: Left communism and the Russian revolution; Part IV: Towards a theory of the ...

Health spas have long made fantastical claims for their curative benefits, but Tskaltubo’s “Waters of Immortality” must ...

This post may contain links from our sponsors and affiliates, and Flywheel Publishing may receive compensation for actions taken through them. The first historical reference to the Russian state was ...

Russians throughout the country on October 29 commemorated the victims of Soviet repression with an annual event organized by the Memorial human rights group, which itself was banned and shut down by ...

Stalin's likeness is located near the Battle of Stalingrad Museum and is flanked by similar busts of World War II-era Soviet leaders Georgy Zhukov and Alexander Vasilevsky. Statues of the communist ...

After winning the Nobel Prize for her searing portraits of the Soviet world unraveling, Svetlana Alexievich worries about the ...