In the early 1950s, at the height of the Red Scare, one question trailed the famed nuclear physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer ...

In “The Revolutionists,” the Guardian journalist Jason Burke explores how leftist militants gave way to Islamist ones in the ...

The first decades following the Russian Revolution saw enormous changes in women’s social role, but early promises of ...

As funding cuts threaten Pilsen’s murals and war destroys Ukrainian mosaics, two communities are learning what makes public art endure.

Written and directed by Alexey Evstigneev, 'Father's Letters' traces a correspondence between a father and his daughter, ...

What exactly was the Space Race? Why did we care so much? The Space Race grew out of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, the most powerful countries after World War II. For a ...

It was a special Christmas in 1991. Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev resigned. Then on Dec. 25, 1991, the Soviet Union’s bloody hammer-and-sickle flag was lowered for the last time from the roof of ...

A collection of 595 photographs and film stills from 1918 depicts Soviet social programs and key battles of the Civil War. Biographies of people featured in Soviet photographs. Please note that ...

After the collapse of Soviet Communism, the virus of political infiltration had left the lab to infect the world - Peter Turnley/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images There was a time when we knew who the enemy ...

A SSEES Culture and Society in Modern Russia seminar with Professor Mark Lipovetsky (Columbia University). Please note this event will be delivered in Russian. Please note this event will be delivered ...

A year after the official opening of Canada’s monument to the victims of communism in Ottawa, the Department of Canadian Heritage has reversed its decision to inscribe individual names on it after a ...