In July 1969, the Soviet Union’s N1 moon rocket detonated in one of the largest non nuclear explosions ever recorded, just weeks before Apollo 11. Behind the blast lay a web of secret intelligence, ...

Twenty-five years ago, after the fall of the Soviet Union, an academic at the University of Warwick began work in the Russian archives to map the sophisticated regime that made the Soviet Union the ...

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

Mark B Smith’s Exit Stalin tells the history of a Soviet society largely without protest, without violent repression, without dramatic events, and without sudden economic shifts ...