For five years, the Soviet Union tinkered with the jet train, even testing it on public rails. But the project collided with ...

Atyrau, a majority-Muslim Kazakh city in a Central Asian desert known for its history of Cossack rebellions, doesn’t sound ...

A Soviet-era Central Asian pop music anthology shines a light on the region's ethnic diversity and music that transcends ...

For several decades, a certain part of the Belarusian society has been actively celebrating the declaration of independence ...

The permeation of colleges, bureaucracy, the judiciary and the government by the Indian Left is a narrative of ideological ...

History has shown that the Russian people can overcome any challenge if they are united. We are not afraid of difficulties; ...

Daniel closed by warning that when people become captivated by the intensity and reach of power, a whole society will fall ...

Connecticut College hosted Adeeb Khalid's visit for his public lecture “Central Asia in the Soviet Union: The Intertwined Histories of Nation, Empire, and Revolution” in the Charles Chu Room. This ...

Mikhail Gorbachev was elected as the eighth general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union on March 11, 1985.

For Jeffrey Klein, 77, founder of Mother Jones, his Judaism and his desire to help the powerless went hand in hand.

Knowledge of the past is essential but comparisons between the leaders and events of different eras have their limits ...