The Gouzenko spy scandal reverberated throughout the world. In the United States as in Canada, there was heightened suspicion and paranoia of communist spies. A more lasting legacy of Gouzenko's ...

Maria Limanskaya directing traffic at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin in 1945 - Evgeny Khaldey Maria Limanskaya, who has died aged 100, was a Soviet traffic “regulator” who in May 1945 became known as ...

Scraps of Moscow feels “sort of funny using new media to post photos of old media” and writes about a 1945 book on the still-friendly Allies – or, the “soon-to-be Cold-War foes.” Global Voices stands ...

The pioneering migration scholar Eugene Kulischer employed the metaphor of the 'flood' to characterize the movement of peoples across Eurasia at the end of the Second World War. This article builds on ...

THE average American finds it difficult to explain why the foreigner says “ze” or “de,” rather than the perfectly natural (to him) “the" until he tries to enunciate an elegant French “rue” or gets his ...

As the war ended in 1945, captured Waffen SS men faced brutal treatment by the Soviets who saw them not as ordinary soldiers, but as ideological enemies to be broken. Many tried to hide their ...

"The scope of research was intentionally limited to the work of the Moscow designers ..."--Page 7. New, larger version of: Iz istorii sovetskogo kostiuma. 1972. The early history of Soviet clothing ...