"Podnieks on Podnieks" is the story of a phenomenally influential Latvian documentarian who is remembered by relatively few ...

American humorist Irene Kampen chronicled her eight-week sojourn to the Soviet Union in the summer of 1969 in her travelogue, Are You Carrying Any Gold or Living Relatives?, published by Doubleday in ...

Reason's December special issue marks the 30th anniversary of the collapse of the Soviet Union. This story is part of our exploration of the global legacy of that evil empire, and our effort to be ...

In 2016, film student Victor Galusca found almost 4,000 photos in an abandoned home in the small country of Moldova. The photos were taken by a photographer, Zaharia Cusnir, and depicted village life ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, the final leader of the Soviet Union, died at the age of 91 of "a long and grave illness," Russian news agencies reported Tuesday. Gorbachev was one of the major political figures ...

In 36 bloody hours at Babi Yar, a deep ravine outside Kiev, Hitler’s special commandos 28 years ago last week coldly machine-gunned 34,000 Jews. The massacre has become a symbol not only of Nazi ...

The Battle of Stalingrad marked the turning point of World War II on the Eastern Front. It transformed the momentum of the war, shifting the balance of power from Nazi ...

We remember the lives of Alicia Ugartechea and Usha Subrahmanyam, two mothers who were lost to COVID-19 this year. And, we look back at life in Russia these past three decades since the collapse of ...

When the Berlin Wall fell a third of a century ago, the West, led by the United States, thought it had secured a great political victory. And so it had, in a way. But political victories are seldom ...

Natan Sharansky and Connie Smukler on Glienicke Bridge in Berlin, the location where Sharansky famously crossed the border to gain his freedom in 1986 Courtesy of Connie Smukler When Israeli ...