A Cold War Movie That Gives Too Much Credit to Ronald Reagan

Americans do not know enough about the Cold War, and much of what they think they know is wrong. After the fall of the Soviet ...
Forbes

The Soviet Army Once Shot Its Own Troops For Retreating. The Russian Army Might Do The Same.

A Soviet machine gun team during World War II. After losing as many as 100,000 troops killed and wounded in Ukraine and forcibly drafting 300,000 unwilling men to replace them, the Russian army ...
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How the Soviet mafia survived Stalin, the Gulag and the KGB

Inside the Soviet prison system emerged a criminal society with its own hierarchy, money, rituals and uncompromising code of conduct. Known as the thieves-in-law, its members rejected cooperation with ...
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Last Soviet leader Gorbachev, who ended Cold War and won Nobel prize, dies aged 91

(Reuters) -Mikhail Gorbachev, who ended the Cold War without bloodshed but failed to prevent the collapse of the Soviet Union, died on Tuesday at the age of 91, hospital officials in Moscow said.
The New Yorker

Mikhail Gorbachev, the Fundamentally Soviet Man

Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, died in Moscow, on Tuesday, at the age of ninety-one. In the last two decades of his life, he rarely granted interviews. So, in 2010, when he ...
The New Yorker

When the Soviet Union Freed the Arctic from Capitalist Slavery

In the winter of 1919, the settlement of Anadyr, just below the Arctic circle, was a cluster of cabins: storehouses of fox, bear, and wolverine pelts; the offices of a few fur companies; and the ...
Wall Street Journal

Mikhail Gorbachev’s Undoing Was His Devotion to Soviet Ideas

Mikhail Gorbachev’s goal, according to his associates, was “socialism with a human face.” The belief that communism was reformable was what led him to risk introducing fundamental change. Soviet ...
Yahoo

Thirty years ago, the Soviet Union collapsed but Russia remains a power

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Thirty years ago, the flag of the Soviet Union was taken down from the Kremlin for the last time. The Union of Soviet Socialist ...
Newsweek

Former Soviet Union Countries Are ‘Our Territory,’ Russian Academic Says

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A Russian academic has said on state TV that nations that were part of ...
The Atlantic

The Other History of the Holocaust

Picture a long table covered end to end in crystal bowls filled with cured fish, pickled foods, and salads with an alarming amount of mayonnaise. There’s vodka and black bread on the table too. A man ...
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They stayed in a haunted Soviet spa town - then found the dark history still living inside

Hidden in a Georgian forest, Tskaltubo was once a glamorous Soviet spa town built around natural springs believed to have healing powers. Communist elites came here to rest, Stalin had a private bath ...
American Enterprise Institute

The Soviet Military Was a Hollow Colossus

One day in 1985, an eighteen-year-old named Riho Terras turned up at the Soviet armed forces’ large conscript assessment facility in Tallinn, some two hours from his hometown of Kohtla-Järve in ...