For most of us in the West, until the fall of the Berlin Wall “Russia” was synonymous with the Soviet Union. Among the 15 ...

On Oct. 16, 1978, the cardinal electors of the Roman Catholic Church elected Polish Cardinal Karol Wojtyla to sit on the Chair of St. Peter. Wojtyla took the name Pope John Paul II, having succeeded ...

Yaroslav Bilinsky, a widely recognized expert on Soviet and post-Soviet foreign policy and a distinguished member of the University of Delaware faculty for more than four decades, passed away on Sept.

THE reorganization of the Soviet political police, the OGPU, and its virtual transformation into a Commissariat for Internal Affairs which does not possess the right to pronounce summary death ...

In the decades following the 1917 Russian Revolution, most people in Moscow lived in communal apartments; seven or more families crammed together where there had been one, sharing one kitchen and one ...

"Viktor Koretsky (1909-1998) was a leading Soviet political poster artist and the acknowledged master of the Soviet photographic poster. With a long and prolific career that spanned the early Stalin ...