In this episode of IWM Stories, John Delaney takes a look at why Operation Barbarossa failed with the help of archive film, photographs and battle maps. In August 1939, as Europe slid towards another ...

The Soviet Union was a socialist state in Northern Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991. Officially known as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), the state was made up of 15 republics ...

The Union of Soviet Writers, USSR Union of Writers, or Soviet Union of Writers (Russian: Союз писателей СССР, romanized: Soyuz pisatelei SSSR) was a creative union of professional writers in the ...

Press technology in the Soviet Union during the 1970s and 1980s was based upon hot-type lead, which was behind that of their western counterparts, which had transitioned to cold type, photo type ...

Mr Gorbachev took power in 1985 and introduced reforms, as well as opening up the Soviet Union to the world. But he was unable to prevent the slow collapse of the union, and many Russians blamed ...

Changes in the Soviet Union Life in Hungary before the uprising Causes of the uprising in Hungary in 1956 The events of the uprising and the USSR’s response The Hungarian leader, who had been in ...

Thirty years after the unexpected collapse of the Soviet Union, Vladislav Zubok offers a major reinterpretation of this event, refuting the notion that the breakup of the Soviet order was inevitable.

Something more akin, perhaps, to a grand restructuring in the spirit of the Soviet era’s Perestroika or America’s 1930s New Deal. For one, there’s the relative secrecy with which Draghi — the Italian ...

The term GULag is an acronym for what is known as the Central Administration of Education and Labour Camps of the Soviet Union. In its colloquial use, ‘the Gulag’ is used for the overall system of ...