The remarkable story of the Lada VAZ-2106 engine, a Soviet-era powerplant that powered cars for over five decades.

In 1971, the United States launched a secret satellite program called JUMPSEAT, which surveilled the Soviet Union throughout the Cold War. Before, during, and after the Cold War reconnaissance ...

Their slice-of-life memories are heart-warming and a stark reminder of the arbitrary cruelty of the Soviet Union, even in the relatively becalmed early 1970s when the terror of Stalin had given way to ...

In this episode of the Highlights Podcast, Alexander Herbert, a PhD candidate in the history department, discusses his book, What About Tomorrow?: An Oral History of Russian Punk from the Soviet Era ...

The events that have been taking place in Europe since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 had never before occurred in the same cumulative fashion in the continent’s history. First, led by the ...