Trofim Lysenko rose to power by promising Stalin a miracle: crops that would grow faster, bigger, and stronger without modern ...

Olga Freidenberg’s journals recorded the indignities and horrors of daily life in the Soviet Union.

Explore the chilling historical account of thousands of American and European specialists who traveled to the Soviet Union ...

By Andrew Osborn MOSCOW, April 23 (Reuters) - Four European states have accused Russia of trying to destroy the memory of ...

In the spring of 1945, the U.S. Navy quietly handed over 149 warships to the Soviet Union at a remote Alaskan outpost, training the crews for the upcoming invasion of Japan. In the spring of 1945, ...

In the Paris suburb of Vanves, a small literary circle keeps alive the memory of the great Russian poet Marina Tsvetaeva, in ...

In 1990, National Geographic went to the Soviet Union to report on one of the worst environmental disasters of the 20th century: the shrinking of the Aral Sea.

Abstract works created by the Russian artist Oleg Prokofiev in defiance of Soviet censorship in the 1950s—and presumed lost ...

By Guy Faulconbridge MOSCOW, April 24 (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin has ordered Russia's Federal Security Service's ...

This was only the prelude, however, to Stalin’s great anti-Jewish pogrom of the last six years of his life, before his death on 5 March 1953 – an event which saved the lives of unknown tens of ...

Topeka Capital-Journal reporters, photographers and editors have a rich history as writers. More than 30 have written both fiction and non-fiction books. "The Silence that Remains," a historical ...