Eduard Kuznetsov, who has died aged 85, was the main leader of a group of Soviet Jewish refuseniks who, in 1970, plotted to ...
The Soviet elite. What could be more pleasurable ... Each of us has been assigned a sergeant, to ensure that we do not speak with fellow prisoners. The Soviets had kept us isolated from each ...
Eight Jews stood in the Soviet Union's courtroom and declared their loyalty to the Jewish People, and to our past, present, and future. And it happened on Hanukkah.
Gary Powers, Jr. took a U-2 flight in 2000. He talks about what he saw from 70,000 ft., including Area 51. He also discusses ...
Published on this day in 1973, "The Gulag Archipelago" drew on Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's experiences as a ...
He was engaged in the organization of espionage and sabotage operations, among which stand out the assassination of the ...
Jimmy Carter has long been cast as one of America’s least-effective modern presidents—blamed for failing to tame inflation, ...
NY state to pay Attica victims; top Nixon aides convicted in Watergate scandal; Soviet trial of Japanese war criminals; Stalin steps up slander of Trotsky.
A prisoner swap involving as many as 30 people ... In an echo of the Cold War-era movement to free Soviet Jewry, activists have turned to Jewish holiday rituals to raise awareness of his ...
In 2024, President Vladimir Putin further cemented his grip on power and sought to counter Russia's isolation from the West ...
Former President Jimmy Carter led the US through a tumultuous time of conflict in the Middle East, gas shortages, Cold War ...