Stakhanovite Shopping
Even the retail sector became part of the second Five Year Plan imposed on the Soviet Union by Stalin.
Even the retail sector became part of the second Five Year Plan imposed on the Soviet Union by Stalin.
We ask four historians whether the demise of one of the 20th century’s superpowers was as inevitable as it now seems.
The ‘Guerrilla Queen’ of Soviet Russia became a role model for women in combat.
Mikhail Gorbachev’s Perestroika triggered an outpouring of resentment across the USSR. In 1986, young Kazakhs made their voices heard, but the Soviet regime was not ready to listen.
The leader of the Soviet Revolution was an armed prophet who adopted the characteristics of the lion and the fox.
The East German Uprising of 1953 was the first major revolt to take place in the Soviet Bloc.
The Russian Revolution should not be confined to 1917. The legacy of its leader and chief ideologue lives on in all its terrible contradictions.
The October Revolution of 1917 inspired a generation of young Russians to embrace new ideals of socialist living.
Alexander Kerensky, the last Russian premier before the Bolsheviks took power, decided to continue the war with Germany. He and his country would pay the price.
Underneath the sweeping history of the Russian Revolution is another story, one told through the lesser-known people, moments and objects of a world in transformation.