Filmmaker Julia Loktev was in Moscow following her journalist friends as Russian forces invaded Ukraine. She captured a ...

Col. Andrei Demurenko’s war story began at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., at a moment of hope and peace. It ended with a mortar ...

Russia is remaking Mariupol, which was devastated by a brutal siege in 2022. Ukrainians seeking to move back are finding it ...

Here's the standard high school history class summary of the Soviet Union: The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a communist state from 1922 to 1991 and was a big rival of the US from ...

A new generation of dissident artists is inspiring a wave of solidarity against Putin’s war—recalling the Soviet people who ...

While the Soviet authorities promoted their vision of ideological "universalism" — a homogenized identity that suppressed ...

A stunning juxtaposition of history and modern life, Transnistria exists as a time warp from before the Iron Curtain fell.

Moscow-born journalist Julia Ioffe examines the women of her country over the past century ...

Demikhov was a pioneer of heart surgery. But thanks to his other, unusual, "interests", that hardly ever gets brought up.

Surovtsev was born in the USSR city of Zhdanov – which has since been renamed Mariupol in present-day Ukraine – in 1984. After his father, a Chernobyl nuclear power plant worker, died from radiation ...

Gyunduz Mamedov, a lawyer-turned-soldier, fears the West will acquiesce in the Kremlin’s bid to undermine justice ...

It’s rare that we look to Soviet-era cinema to find positive queer representation, but surprisingly enough, one overlooked ...