Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A parade in Red Square, Moscow – a carefully choreographed display of Soviet power and unity that stood in contrast to the ...

Seeing how people lived beyond the Iron Curtain made Tabarovsky dream of immigrating — an aspiration shared by many Jews in ...

Life in the Soviet Union was filled with strange contradictions ration cards and black market jeans, communal apartments, and secret jokes that could get you arrested. These five weird facts reveal ...

A timeline of Stalin's life, the man that oversaw the war machine that helped defeat Nazism and who was the supreme ruler of ...

Elizabeth Ellis of Rochester found her 1955 two-week stay in the Soviet Union to be “a wonderful educational experience.” However, she told the Post-Bulletin, “I wouldn’t suggest a trip to Russia for ...

Writer Sasha Vasilyuk was awarded on Tuesday the 2025 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature for her debut novel, “Your Presence Is Mandatory,” which explores the moral terrain of Jewish life in the ...

“In jail and in the camps Shukhov had lost the habit of scheming how he was going to feed his family from day to day or year to year. The bosses did all his thinking for him, and that somehow made ...

Some 200,000 Jewish refugees came to Germany after the fall of the USSR, and brought cultural traditions — like partying hard during Christmas. Thirty-three years ago, the Soviet Union collapsed, ...

Explore how the Soviet command economy led to consumer goods shortages, impacting daily life. Understand government production priorities and market limitations.

Dmitri Shostakovich: the Soviet voice of the oppressed. Discover the lives and works of all the great composers, at classical ...