The Great Purge was a period in the history of the Soviet Union where Stalin eliminated the majority of the "Old Bolsheviks" ...

Russia filmed its troops firing a D-74, an old artillery gun the Soviets exported to their allies. Its appearance is leading to suspicions that it was brought back in from a country such as North ...

One of the many little-known facts about the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is that some 25% of its territory lies north of the Arctic Circle. The Soviet Arctic (some of which is south of the ...

This year, 2016, will mark the twentieth-fifth anniversary of the end of the Soviet Union from the political map of the world. A quarter of a century ago, the menace of Soviet-led communism, which had ...

Every year on January 27, the world commemorates the victims of the Holocaust. In the Soviet Union, the tragedy of the Jews ...

This post may contain links from our sponsors and affiliates, and Flywheel Publishing may receive compensation for actions taken through them. In his televised speech to the Russian nation on Feb. 21, ...

Last summer, a staffer at the Philadelphia Museum of Art was digging through stacks of 19th century drawings when they stumbled upon something strange. It was a nondescript box with the vague label ...

Eight years before he and his wife Ethel were executed in the electric chair at New York‘s notorious Sing Sing prison, Soviet spy Julius Rosenberg pleaded with federal officials to keep his job with ...