Yordanov consulted more than 20 archives across Eastern Europe, as well as in Russia, Cuba, and the United States, to craft ...
In 1935 Soviet humorists Ilf and Petrov were allowed to visit the United States where they embarked on a cross-country road ...
A referendum that constitutionally enshrines a national objective to join the E.U. passed by a thin margin. The incumbent pro ...
During the Cold War, the Soviet Union sought an edge in undersea warfare by designing the Lira-class (Alfa) submarines with ...
On October 20, 1970, the Soviet Union launched the Zond 8 spacecraft on a mission to the moon. ‘On This Day in Space’ Video ...
In his thorough historical exploration of memorials and magnificent edifices in Stalin’s Soviet Union, Kalashnikov argues that the frenzy of monument building and grand architectural projects was ...
“Back in the Soviet Union era, Armenia was really very famous as a hi-tech country,” Armenian President Vahagn Khachaturyan ...
Rare archival photos capture Mongolia in the period from 1924 to 1992 when the East Asian country was a communist satellite ...
Burmanization is a form of oppressions that minority ethnic communities across Burma had to endure for centuries. It became ...
Being stateless often means that you cannot open a bank account, register property, get married, enroll a child in school, ...
Nikita Kruschev’s attempts to liberalise the leadership of the Soviet Union was ousted by his political rivals on 1964.
On Oct. 16, 1978, the cardinal electors of the Roman Catholic Church elected Polish Cardinal Karol Wojtyla to sit on the ...