By all accounts, Pavlichenko was a loyal Soviet citizen from start to finish ... Her parents were Mikhail Belov—a locksmith from Petrograd as well as a loyal Communist party member and former ...

Pavlichenko attained a final kill tally of 309, making her one of the top five deadliest snipers, period. M arch is Women’s ...

The Polish Military Congress in Petrograd elected him its honorary chairman ... The Napoleon of the East commenced with a blunder. He ignored the Soviet military fist gathered up in the northeast.

Some high schools that once took a “college for all” approach are now guiding teenagers toward more choices. Do you think that is a good idea? By Shannon Doyne Look closely at this image ...

to the Petrograd flat occupied by Lili and her husband Osip. Here, lounging against a doorframe, Mayakovsky read his latest poem, ‘A Cloud in Trousers’. ‘ It was what we had dreamed about for so long.

By this time he had become a figure of some renown and the focus of contention and conflict within the Soviet literary establishment. What we are left with is a very diverse body of writing, the ...

A turbulent history has stifled the economy, but things are starting to look up for the Caucasus republic. A highly-skilled, post-soviet engineering workforce and a diaspora of advocates, combined ...