Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania have officially joined the EU grid in response to Russia’s war on Ukraine.

A controversial memoir of a Finnish woman who migrated to Stalin’s Soviet Russia in the 1930s and escaped in 1941. Ninety years later, her granddaughter has translated the diary into English.

Headlines of the 1950s and '60s seemed to indicate that the Soviet Union was light-years ahead of the U.S. throughout much of the space race. But behind the scenes, a very different story was ...

Soviet policy in Eastern Europe The 1950s brought a desire for reform in Eastern Europe. The Soviet Union reacted differently to events in Poland, Hungary and Berlin, due to domestic pressures and ...

After the shock of Stalin’s death in 1953, a sense of hope enveloped the Soviet Union, bringing a desire for more civil liberties and an end to fear. Nikita Khrushchev emerged as the new ...

The Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania completed a switch from Russia's electricity grid to the EU's system on ...