Tag: Soviet Union

The story of May Day in Russia and the Soviet Union

Dr Elena Rounkova holds a doctorate from the Moscow State University Institute o...

Mrs Thatcher elected prime minister: 4 May 1979

Michael EJ Phillips

Saur Revolution Overthrows Afghan Government and Ignite...

Violent 1978 coup in Kabul reshaped Afghanistan’s political direction and deepen...

Germans introduce poison gas

22 April 1915.

Lenin returns to Russia from exile

16 April 1917.

Nikita Khrushchev begins his rise to power

14 March 1953.

Did you know Africa once had nuclear weapons?

While the continent is legally committed to being a nuclear-free zone, its secur...

Roy Medvedev, Soviet dissident historian who exposed St...

He was the first historian to calculate the number of Stalin’s victims: ‘Not one...

Karl Marx publishes Communist Manifesto

21 February 1848.

Woman denied entry by Baltic nation over Soviet cash

Lithuanian customs has said the outdated currency is a “tool of propaganda”

This European country is preparing to give up its futur...

With formal withdrawal from the CIS underway, Moldova faces mounting economic an...

Auschwitz is liberated

27 January 1945