The story of Frank Arnold Nesbitt stands out among the history of other Alaska-associated espionage from the past 50 years.

On March 5, 1953, the Soviet Union faced a massive shift in power. Joseph Stalin, the leader who had ruled the nation since 1924, died in ...

“In jail and in the camps Shukhov had lost the habit of scheming how he was going to feed his family from day to day or year to year. The bosses did all his thinking for him, and that somehow made ...

Many in the West today imagine the Soviet Union as it’s portrayed in Call of Duty games: a land of prisons and labor camps, where every citizen marched to the tune of the Party and its all-seeing ...

When the roar of jet engines echoed over the frozen landscapes of North Korea in 1952, it often signaled a clash of titans in the skies. But on one particular ...

Elizabeth Ellis of Rochester found her 1955 two-week stay in the Soviet Union to be “a wonderful educational experience.” However, she told the Post-Bulletin, “I wouldn’t suggest a trip to Russia for ...

A U.S. diplomat’s warning about the Soviet Union’s grand strategy helped produce the strategy of containment that won the Cold War.

I’ve studied Czechoslovakia in 1968. I live in Minneapolis. The similarities between the historic invasion and the current ICE “surge” are scary. Alice Lovejoy In Czechoslovakia on August 21, 1968, ...

The sign of a good play is that it can ring out its truth through different eras and still seem utterly relevant to the ...

The museum had preserved the history of brutality inflicted by the Soviet Union on its people. It will now focus on Nazi war crimes.

As tensions continue to rise in the Middle East, three underground bunkers in Colorado, Pennsylvania and Virginia stand ready to protect the President during a potential nuclear conflict ...

Lauren Yee’s boisterous play “Mother Russia,” about the origins of the contemporary oligarchy, has its roots in her San ...