The historic Dom Turka facility in Augustow, Poland, is set to become the House of Remembrance of the Augustow Roundup.

Lavrentii Beria was one of the cruelest leaders in a regime known for its brutality. He first reached a position of power by working his way up the police organization in the Soviet republic of ...

Volunteers from North America, mainly the United States, who went to fight in defense of the Spanish Republic in the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Well-depicted in George Orwell's Homage to ...

With its predecessors including the Tsarist intelligence agencies, the Bolsheivk’s shield and sword and Stalin’s NKVD, the KGB was no ordinary service to the Soviet Union’s Communist Party.

The article explores the historical imposition of a common language by Soviet Russia and compares it with India's linguistic ...

The biography begins with the 1905 revolution in Moscow, when Vavilov, the grandson of a Russian serf and the son of a man who rose from extremely humble beginnings to become a wealthy textile ...