"Everyone was equal," the kerchiefed babushka of Eli from Russia — a YouTuber who documents everyday life and regional ...

Slowed down so you can understand what students are saying in English.. Soviet-era educational film for teaching English to students. The transcript captures a chaotic classroom discussion where ...

In 1982 a Russian translation of Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind was issued in the Soviet Union. Judging by reports from that quarter, the book has been an enormous success—with those readers ...

One of the many little-known facts about the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is that some 25% of its territory lies north of the Arctic Circle. The Soviet Arctic (some of which is south of the ...

As World War II drew to a close, millions of Russians and other Soviet citizens found themselves outside the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Some were prisoners of war, others civilian forced ...

The Soviet Union is unsurpassed in the art of defense budgetry. The point of the game is not so much to lay out actual fiscal allocations as to demonstrate to outsiders the latest Kremlin ...

The war in Ukraine drew attention to the complicated China-Russian relationship. Since the Soviet Union era, Beijing has had mixed sentiments toward Moscow. The Soviet Union was the “big brother” and ...