This course will cover the history of the Soviet Union, from its inception as a combination of the ... The Last Soviet Generation (Princeton, 2005); Yegor Gaidar, Collapse of an Empire: Lessons for ...

In the early years of the Soviet Union, the fervent pursuit of scientific ... Society must grapple with the daunting task of ensuring that the lessons of history are not forgotten but serve ...

Elements in Soviet and Post-Soviet History provide timely, concise, authoritative and distinctive overviews of the post-Soviet space. By providing parallel histories of the fifteen successor states, ...

The KGB’s successor, the Federal Security Service, or FSB, continued to probe our secrets and attempted to recruit agents just as aggressively as the KGB at the height of the Cold War. Moscow marked ...

He shows how a history of the development of capitalism needs to integrate the socialist world in bringing about the new form of capitalism that regiments our lives today. ‘Oscar Sanchez-Sibony ...

I am a first-year M.A. student at the Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences. My research interests mainly revolve around cultural and social history of Soviet Union and Modern Russia. I am originally ...

Did the Soviet dissidents have an impact on history? Nathans wants to dissociate himself from the simplistic argument that they caused the collapse of the Soviet Union, and this perhaps leads him to ...

Ukrainian war reporter Andriy Tsaplienko has spent the last two-and-a-half years documenting the war with Russia. He views ...

Tomas Sniegon does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

Al Cantello, a star of the U.S. track and field team, arranged a covert meeting between a government agent and a Ukrainian long jumper Erik Ofgang The Chesapeake 1000 was used to construct a ship ...