But China is not the Soviet Union. It is not an isolated command economy, nor an empire straining under the weight of its military overreach. It is a globalized, tech-powered, civilizational state ...

Betrayed by their purported “allies” and left reeling by the lighting war conducted against them, the Soviet Union found itself on the backfoot as Nazi troops and tanks sped into the Soviet ...

Keywords Eastern Europe, Soviet Union, communism, Warsaw Pact, liberalization, nationalism, Cold War, reform, peaceful coexistence, Iron Curtain Vatican reveals official cause of death of Pope ...

Richard Marowitz, a Jewish American soldier, wears Hitler’s top hat while doing a Charlie Chaplin ... told the Times Union after Marowitz died in 2014. “Marowitz epitomizes the motto of ...

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 ...

Authorities in several Kazakh cities have banned marches associated with Russia’s “Immortal Regiment” movement ahead of Victory Day on May 9, the independent news outlet Nastoyashchee Vremya reported ...

In one of the most remarkable non-violent revolutions in history, the people of Estonia used music as their greatest weapon.

And now, despite selling himself as a fresh face with new ideas, Carney is proposing creating a new federal bureaucracy in the BCH and engaging in a Soviet-style building project that’s sure to ...

including his debut match in 1974 against the Soviet Union Republic of Ireland players, from left to right, captain John Giles, Steve Heighway and Liam Brady on his senior international debut in ...

(AP) — Matthew Knies scored a game-winning goal in overtime to record his second hat trick of the season ... For more than a century, Times Union photographers have been documenting the Capital ...

How did Stalin get away with murder? Stalin’s name meant "man of steel" and he lived up to it. He oversaw the war machine that helped defeat Nazism and was the supreme ruler of the Soviet Union ...