The Russian Job tells the story of the American Relief Administration (ARA) and its work in Russia during the country’s famine of 1921–2. Less celebrated at the time than a far smaller European effort ...

Analysis: 100 years after his death, Lenin seems to be an afterthought in modern Russia A century after the death of Vladimir Lenin, the founder of the Soviet Union is largely an afterthought in ...

But the Soviet Union would have to submit to that inspection regime ... Other biological agents could target livestock or crops to cause famine. The risks of an epidemic destroying its originators ...

"The Soviet Union took on the West and lost," he said. Sikorski said that Putin "is on the record saying that under Brezhnev, the Soviet Union overspent on the military and bankrupted the country." ...

A famine like Ukraine's Holodomor (1932–1933 ... Four million people died. The Soviet Union has always denied this history. Since the recent invasion of Ukraine by Russia, more and more states ...

He then slipped out of the country. On 30th March 1933, he told a press conference in Berlin that a major famine was unfolding in the Soviet Union: “Everywhere was the cry, ‘There is no bread. We are ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping has accepted Russia's invitation to attend the commemorations of the Soviet victory over Nazi ...

When we think of famine, we quickly think of a natural disaster, while there are often political causes as well. A famine like Ukraine's Holodomor (1932–1933) is now recognized by more and more states ...

This state-enforced famine in the Soviet Union brought about the death of millions and gave a massive stimulus to the Gulag: the state-enforced system of slave labour and working to death, most ...

Russia is aiming to revive Soviet-era propaganda about the threat of a "nuclear winter" to instill fear into the Western ...

Stephen Lewis, who co-founded the foundation that bears his name, says, “I refuse to dissemble or beat around the bush. With ...