One of our followers asked via our Telegram channel whether there are any “ugly” Russian women – because, allegedly, no one has ever seen any! After considering the very real possibilities ...

In March 1945, with victory over Nazi Germany only weeks away, Pravda praised the nearly one million Soviet women who had fought the Germans and their allies. They had ‘proved themselves as pilots, ...

Rare archival photos capture Mongolia in the period from 1924 to 1992 when the East Asian country was a communist satellite ...

Women in the former Soviet Union, despite a legacy of high levels of education and labor force participation, face a host of new problems, according to editors Kathleen Kuehnast and Carol Nechemias.

Antifascist Committee of Soviet Women (AKSZh) (Russian: Антифашистский комитет советских женщин) also known as the Committee of Soviet Women (Комитет советских женщин), was a state women's ...

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This September was deadlier for the Russian military than any other month in the war, with an average of 1,271 troops killed ...

During World War II, large numbers of Polish and Soviet Jews fled eastwards from German-occupied Europe or were deported by the Soviet Union. The majority of exiled Polish Jews lived in various labor ...

On the night of 26 September 1983, at the height of the Cold War, the Soviet Union’s early-warning missile detection technology sprang to life. It was the worst-case scenario: the United States, the ...

In CWIHP Working Paper No. 73, "The Soviet-Vietnamese Intelligence Relationship during the Vietnam War: Cooperation and Conflict," Merle Pribbenow explores the role played by Soviet Union’s ...

all of which make no mention of the plant's role in the production of Russian drones. Some of the women were misled that that they would be taking part in a work-study program. They described long ...

The quest to fix the United Nations is almost as old as the organization itself. Eighty years ago, Allied leaders imagined a ...