Citizens look through barbed wire fence during construction of the Berlin Wall. An estimated 56.4 million people died during World War II, making it the deadliest war of all time. Given the terrible ...

Since the breakup of The Soviet Union in 1991, its former republics have attempted to take different political directions. Most came together in the Commonwealth of Independent States (C.I.S.), which ...

Fitzpatrick, a doyenne of Soviet historians, offers the lay reader a concise, chronological account of the Soviet Union premised on the notion that accidents, rather than inevitabilities, drive human ...

One of the underlying principles of the UN Charter is the protection of the sovereign rights of states. Yet since 1945, the five permanent members of the UN Security Council (Soviet Union/Russia, ...

It was one of the signature moments of the environmental movement, and one of the turning points of global history. A few long-haired men and women afloat in small rubber inflatables on an open ocean ...

While the U.S. and Soviet Union were technically at peace during the Cold War, the era also comprised many violent proxy wars across the globe, which both superpowers funded in a bid to expand their ...