Inspired by the subculture of antiestablishment defiance that arose in the conformist Soviet Union of the mid-1950s, “Hipsters” is of interest both as Russian and rebel history and as a notable ...

The military and political tensions of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union gave way to an era of ...

Renewed appeals were made to the Soviet Government today to permit the re-establishment of Jewish cultural and educational institutions in the USSR and to publicly rehabilitate the Soviet Jewish ...

Thirty years ago, the Soviet Union dissolved. On a superficial level, events vindicated the longtime American assertion that socialism “doesn’t work”–Soviet consumer goods lacked both quality and ...

Development of the IS-4 began as early as 1943 at the ChKZ plant in Chelyabinsk. After the complicated and convoluted ...

Galina Vishnevskaya is 96 years old. A Holocaust survivor, she has lived her entire life in the same small Ukrainian village ...

Dohovič took part in the anti-communist resistance. In 1944, he helped his father, a Greek Catholic priest, evade persecution ...