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An artist's rendering of the Tunguska event
The 1908 Tunguska Event and the Threats of Tomorrow
Mutineers in Petrograd during March 1917, shooting upon the Tsar’s police forces.
Russia’s Trial by Fire
The detonation of the Castle Bravo thermonuclear bomb
Top Ten Origins: Civil Defense, Nuclear War, and Duct Tape
Soldiers marching in front of the memorial - The Motherland Calls in Volgograd.
Living in History: Stalingrad at 75
"Glory to victorious Red Army soldier!" by Dmitrii Stakhievich Moor, 1920
The October Revolution in Russia
Abovian Among the Kurds, painting by Mkrtich Sedrakyan, 1950. (Image from author's personal collection, courtesy of the Khachatur Abovian House-Museum, Yerevan, Armenia.)
Top Ten Origins: Russia’s Relations with the Kurds
Lenin waving flag in front of crowd of workers and soldiers
From Romanovs to Reds: Russia's Revolutions at 100
Soldiers at the Battle of Stalingrad
Stalingrad at 75, the Turning Point of World War II in Europe
A 2016 street mural in Lithuania depicting the 'fraternal kiss.'
Russia, America, and the Conspiratorial Worldview
Happy 2nd Lieutenant William Robertson and Lt. Alexander Sylvashko, Soviet Army, shown in front of sign [East Meets West] symbolizing the historic meeting of the Soviet and American Armies, near Torgau, Germany, 1945.
Top Ten Origins: The Best Moments in U.S.-Russian Relations
Demolition of Alexander III Monument, Moscow 1918
Russia’s February Revolution and the Precarious Politics of Nostalgia
An abandoned building in Chernobyl
A Postcard from Chernobyl
A scene from the 1956 Hungarian Revolution
Remembering '56: The Hungarian Revolution
Joseph Stalin
Dismantling a Legacy: The Last Days of Stalin
A woman on the outskirts of Kyiv carrying a bucket of apricots
Eating at You: Food and Chernobyl
The last Soviet forces leave Afghanistan via Friendship Bridge in February of 1989
What They Left Behind: The Soviet Union in Afghanistan
Cover of The Collapse: The Accidental Opening of the Berlin Wall by Mary Elise Sarotte.
…And the Walls Came Tumbling Down: A History of Contingency and Happenstance
the monument of the Soviet army in Sofia, completed in 1954
11/4/2014: Empty Fountains: Communist-Era Monuments Revisited
"Mauerspecht" [Wall Pecker] 1989
“Remember, Remember the 9th of November”: The Fall of the Berlin Wall
Monument with figures dressed as pop culture figures like Superman, Santa, and Ronald McDonald
1989: The Year That Changed It All
Cover of The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union by Serhii Plokhy
"The Greatest Geopolitical Catastrophe of the Century"
Ivan Aivazovsky, a Native of Feodosia, Crimea, is known as one of Russia's greatest painters, and one of the world's best at seascapes. The Battle of Sinop (Russian and Turkish Navies), 1853
Top Ten Origins: Stories from Crimea
Overlooking Euromaidan in Kyiv, Ukraine.
The Ukrainian Crisis: In Russia's Long Shadow
Crowds of people in Kyiv, Ukraine
The Fate of Crimea, the Future of Ukraine, Part I