The Soviet Union
Roger Pethybridge continues our series on the Post-War reconstruction of Europe.
Soviet Union
Stalin’s Russia
Christopher Read explores the historiography of Russia under Joseph Stalin.
Finland and Finlandization
Sakari Sariola looks at the relationship between Finland and the Soviet Union.
Makers of the Twentieth Century: Joseph Stalin
'The cult of personality' means that for the West Stalin personified the arbitrary terror of the Soviet regime: yet he must also stand for the USSR's greatest achievements of modernisation and industrialisation, argues Paul Dukes.
Two Invasions of Afghanistan
'Monumentally bad diplomacy, worse strategy, chaotic military organisation and inept generalship' - Thomas Tulenko describes how great powers have failed in their attacks on Afghanistan. Penned as Soviet tanks rolled into Kabul in December 1979, the BBC's David Loyn offered his own analysis thirty years later.
Makers of the Twentieth Century: Lenin
A study of Lenin by D.A. Longley which questions the usual criteria by which the great Soviet leader's influence and legacy are judged.