What is House of History? House of History is my little soapbox project. Politics, history, and cultural developments have ...

“It was very striking to me the ways in which the Soviet past reverberated in the present,” Tyler Kirk said, discussing his his travels in Russia. “It was very present there.” Kirk, a tenured history ...

On Feb. 2, 1943, the last remnants of Germany’s 6th Army surrendered in the frozen ruins of Stalingrad. The fighting had lasted more than 200 days and cost an estimated 2 million casualties. It marked ...

For most of us in the West, until the fall of the Berlin Wall “Russia” was synonymous with the Soviet Union. Among the 15 ...

In March 1945, German soldiers shot 208 Polish and Soviet forced laborers in a series of three mass executions across the Arnsberg Forest Trending Today So far, authorities have recovered 730 sets of ...

The World Socialist Web Site recently spoke with Stephen Wheatcroft, professorial fellow of Russian and Soviet history at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Wheatcroft is one of the world’s ...

Taking Korzhavin’s toast as its title, a new book by Benjamin Nathans dissects the history of the Soviet dissident movement ...

Put yourself in his position. You’ve just led a 6.5-million-man army across half a continent, ending four years of brutal war that’s left nearly 27 million of your countrymen dead. You’ve just ...

A well-connected dealer in the Cold War Soviet Union could get an enterprising music fan some of the good stuff — American jazz, pop and early rock 'n' roll — for the right price. At a time when ...

A pro-Kremlin lawmaker spawned a tsunami of scorn in Russia this week by alleging that Soviet rock star Viktor Tsoi's Perestroika-era anthems were composed by CIA operatives trying to destabilize the ...

December 30 marks a curious footnote in Soviet history that sounds almost absurd today: in 1932, Soviet authorities moved to ban or suppress publications and guidance labeled as “food for young ...

Any child of the 1980s and any sports fan can tell you the story of the “Miracle on Ice.” The ragtag band of rookie hockey players brought together by the United States for the 1980 Lake Placid Winter ...