Kasparov, Karpov and the KGB? Four decades on from the most controversial chess match of ...
FIDE President Florencio Campomanes announced that he was abandoning the World Chess Championship match between Garry ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation23 天
The controversial diary of a Finnish woman lured by the dream of Soviet Russia that turned ...
Before Huurre's decision to leave Finland in the early 1930s for the Soviet Union, she led a "perfectly normal life", says Hyrske. "In the book, she tries to explain it to herself and to the ...
BBC2 个月
Joseph Stalin: National hero or cold-blooded murderer?
Many in the Soviet Union mourn the loss of this great leader ... From schoolboy failure to wartime hero, Winston Churchill's astonishing life has made him a British icon. Discover how he came ...
The Nation1 个月
The Often Misunderstood History of the Soviet Dissidents
This particular “life” of the dissident movement culminated ... set into motion some of the processes leading to the Soviet Union’s collapse, its lack of attention to institution-building ...
The Irish Times27 天
The Sound of Utopia: Musicians in the Time of Stalin – Silencing tactics in the Soviet Union
The extent of the crimes against humanity committed by the entity known as the Soviet Union will never be known ... the distortion of cultural life through censorship and silencing.
World champion Russian skaters on American Airlines jet built a new life as coaches in the US
Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov won a world championship title together in pairs skating in 1994 and narrowly missed out on Olympic medals that year at the Lillehammer Games before moving to the ...