Tag: USSR

Lenin returns to Russia from exile

Apr 16, 2026

16 April 1917.

Soviets agree to withdraw from Afghanistan

Apr 14, 2026

14 April 1988.

Len Deighton, author who reinvented the spy thriller wi...

Mar 19, 2026

‘The poet of the spy novel’, he transformed a flashy, tuxedo-clad genre into som...

Nikita Khrushchev begins his rise to power

Mar 14, 2026

14 March 1953.

Did you know Africa once had nuclear weapons?

Mar 10, 2026

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

Valentina Tereshkova - pioneering cosmonaut

Mar 8, 2026

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

Russian Bolshevik Party becomes the Communist Party

Mar 8, 2026

8 March 1918.

Mustafa Barzani and his time in the USSR

Mar 1, 2026

Dr Elena Rounkova is a graduate of Moscow State University Institute of Asian an...

Communists take power in Czechoslovakia

Feb 25, 2026

25 February 1948.

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

Feb 24, 2026

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

Ukraine signs peace treaty with Central Powers

Feb 9, 2026

9 February 1918

Welcome to the real Soviet Union – primitive, brutal an...

Jan 22, 2026

Mark B Smith’s magnificent new history, Exit Stalin, lays bare the reality of da...

Ukrainian nationalists commemorate WWII-era Nazi collab...

Jan 2, 2026

A torch-lit parade was held in the city of Lviv marking the 117th birthday of St...

Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov released from internal...

Dec 19, 2025

19 December 1986. Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov (1921-1989) was a Soviet nuclear p...

Soviets encircle Germans at Stalingrad

Nov 23, 2025