The Nazi invasion of Russia ended the Pact and shifted the Soviet Union from the Axis Powers...
Russia
Ukraine has been occupied since the Chalcolithic (Copper Age) and the Sredny Stog culture from 4500 BCE....
The development of extensive trade routes allowed Russia to grow in size and power. The Viking Influence...
With the stroke of a pen 75 years ago, two men changed the world and sealed the...
His decree ordered that Russia observe calendar years from the birth of Christ. Peter the Great’s reign...
Before the German invasion, Ukraine was a constituent republic of the Soviet Union. Introduction During World War...
The bones show interbreeding Neanderthal and Denosivan humans. This article reprinted from RFE/RL. A piece of bone...
The significance of the imperial heritage for the Russian–Ukrainian relationship. Abstract The legacy of the tsarist Empire...
Kievan Rus’, medieval Ukraine, played an important role in both Russia and Europe. Introduction Kievan Rus′ was...
On November 10, 1958, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev fired the opening salvo of what would become known...
Ukraine’s Orthodox Church recently broke off from Russia. This dispute has a history that goes back to...
The war over-extended the capabilities of the Soviet empire, as other military engagements have helped to bring...
On August 23rd, 1939, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union stunned the world by announcing a nonaggression...
Looking at the human exchanges that took place between the priests of the Russian Orthodox Church in...
From onion domes to tsarist-era Russian dialects, evidence of the Russian colonialism remains. Every summer a conga...
In 1867, the US bought Alaska from Tsar Alexander II for a tidy sum of $7.2 million....
The world’s northernmost city, above the Arctic Circle. Originally published by ESRI, republished with embed permission for...
Walt Whitman’s influence on the creative output of 20th-century Russia — particularly in the years surrounding the...
Shrouded by myth and intrigue, Catherine the Great is now regarded as one of history’s most influential...
The charge of the Light Brigade always elicited ambivalent responses from eyewitnesses. The charge of the Light...
In 1920 the Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was declared. History The first settlements in the territory...
The Rus are first mentioned in the Annals of Saint-Bertin. Introduction Kievan Rus (862-1242 CE) was a...
After the building that symbolized ‘all that is Russian’ went up in flames, the czar scrambled to...
They were born to Aleksandr and Alina Ivanovna Nikitin, who were serfs attached to one of the...
Communism has been one of the most influential economic theories of all times; recognizing its influence is...
Medvedev’s critical portrayal of the Soviet Union was powerful, persuasive and principled. Zhores Medvedev was not crazy....
Kyiv was abandoned by the Nazis in November 1943, allowing the Soviet authorities to return to the...
In 1943, a propagandistic ideal meant creating a modern Ukraine through Soviet industrialization, even as the republic...
Ukraine’s Orthodox Church recently broke off from Russia. This dispute has a history that goes back to...
The aging Soviet leadership of the 1980s was ill-equipped to deal with ongoing economic stagnation and worsening...