The documents offer disturbing evidence that in February 1944, death squads captured approximately one hundred Soviet women, children, and elderly residents hiding in quarries ...

Research schools, which number between 150 and 200, used the inflow of federal dollars to build labs and other infrastructure ...

The former Soviet Union fought a 10-year war in Afghanistan that ended with Moscow withdrawing its troops in 1989. Russian ...

BY the terms of the armistice with Germany and Italy which came into effect on June 25, 1940, the Pétain government laid down ...

In the Soviet Union, this control was not limited to symbolic gestures – it reshaped the entire academic system. Under Josef Stalin, academic survival depended less on scholarly merit than on ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Trump ramped up the pressure by threatening university research funding and ...

Two decades ago, Russian American anthropologist Alexei Yurchak coined the term “hypernormalisation” to describe the absurd and surreal reality of the Soviet Union during its final two decades.