Russia

Roger Hudson expands on an image of Russian ships destroyed by the Japanese at Port Arthur, 1904.

Recent episodes in Russia paint a disturbing picture in which the Little Father’s actions and legacy are undergoing rehabilitation, says Emily Whitaker.

Ivan became Grand Prince on March 27th 1462, following the death of his father.

Chris Corin elucidates important documents relating to the power struggle after Lenin's death.

Greg Carleton explains how disastrous defeats for the Soviet Union and the US in 1941 were transformed into positive national narratives by the two emerging superpowers.

Russel Tarr compares and contrasts the rise to power of two Communist leaders.

The Russian prime minister was shot during festivities to mark the centenary of the liberation of Russia's serfs on 14 September 1911.

The death of Stalin in 1953 marked a shift in the Soviet Union. Robert Hornsby discusses the underground groups that mushroomed in the aftermath and how the state responded to them.

Roger Moorhouse revisits a perceptive article by John Erickson on the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, first published in History Today in 2001, its insights born of a brief period of Russian openness.

On a research trip to Moscow in the late 1990s, Deborah Kaple was given a package of papers by a former Gulag official who believed its contents would be of great interest to a western audience.