On Feb. 10, 1962, on the Glienicke Bridge connecting West Berlin and East Germany, the Soviet Union exchanged captured ...

Kazakhstan, the region’s largest economy, has condemned the invasion, refused to recognise Russia’s territorial gains and made an effort to demonstrate compliance with western sanctions. Neighbouring ...

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 ...

17): 1) Leonid Petrovich Serebriakov, who from 1919 to 1921 held Stalin’s present post, Secretary General of the Communist Party, and in 1929 was president in Manhattan of the Soviet trade ...

Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev issued a series of reforms and the Communist Party gave up its 70-year monopoly of political power in the Soviet Union.