Published on this day in 1973, "The Gulag Archipelago" drew on Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's experiences as a ...

After the success of the original guide-book ... divided between Poland and the Soviet Union, and finally declared its independence in 1991. Although Belarus is now an independent nation, it ...

Marxist ideas, primarily that economic forces are the main drivers of history, well before they became the cornerstone of the Soviet Union’s ideology. But after Lenin’s death, in 1924, when Stalin ...

Advertisement His presidency, however, lasted only one term before Ronald ... and arms buildup after World War II between the U.S. and Russia, then known as the Soviet Union or Union of Soviet ...