“The near torrent of works attempting to reconstruct and rectify the historical record of the Stalin era continues, and this one is a worthy example.”—Robert Legvold, Foreign Affairs “Hagenloh’s ...
Since the collapse of the USSR, Kazakhstan’s largest city (population 2.2 million and growing) has evolved from a drab, run-of-the-mill Soviet metropolis into the urban star of Central Asia.
Finland emerged from the First World War as a sovereign state. It had previously belonged to the Russian Empire. After the signing of the Hitler-Stalin Pact, Stalin attempted to gain influence over ...
The Anna Stadium in Cuddalore is all set to get an artificial synthetic track soon at a cost of ₹15 crore, Deputy Chief Minister Udhayanidhi Stalin said on Monday. Speaking at a function to ...
Ceramics museum in Kuskovo ‘Kukryniks’ also practiced book illustration, in particular for satirical works by Nikolai Gogol, Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin and main Soviet writer Maxim Gorky.
Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This Warszawa M-20 car with serial number 000001, based on a Soviet Union’s model, was the first vehicle ...
“It was beyond anything I had seen before.” Constructed in the late 1940s during the Soviet era, Neft Daslari began as a lone drilling rig on a tiny island and has since grown into an ...