The Russian Bolsheviks cemented their power after the October revolution and the civil war that followed, thanks to bloody ...
Fitzpatrick, a doyenne of Soviet historians, offers the lay reader a concise, chronological account of the Soviet Union premised on the notion that accidents, rather than inevitabilities, drive human ...
On October 4, 1957, the erstwhile Soviet Union sent Sputnik-1 into outer space. The launch of the world’s first artificial ...
Explore the turbulent history of the DC-10, an aircraft that began as a symbol of modern air travel but quickly gained a reputation for danger after a series of tragic incidents. From its innovative ...
The often misunderstood history of the Soviet dissident movement. In To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause, historian Benjamin Nathans sheds light on how the protest movement reinvented itself at key ...
An article on the history of EPROMs in the Soviet Union by [Vladimir Yakovlev] over at The CPU Shack Museum caught our attention. It is part one of a series on the topic, and walks you through the ...
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 ...
This course is available on the BA in History, BA in Social Anthropology, BSc in History and Politics, BSc in International Relations, BSc in International Relations and History, BSc in Social ...