The often misunderstood history of the Soviet dissident movement. In To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause, historian Benjamin Nathans sheds light on how the protest movement reinvented itself at ...

Indeed there is reason to suspect that the real purpose in using them was less to force a Japanese defeat than to warn the Soviet Union to be amenable to ... The Soviet leader, Nikita Khrushchev, made ...

Art historians studying a painting by Pablo Picasso have uncovered the mysterious portrait of a woman, hidden beneath its surface. The portrait of the woman was lost when Picasso painted over it ...

Kennedy and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev (which he covered for CBS News), and the idea of a potential thaw in relations between the two superpowers – inconceivable then, even with regard to ...

YANGON, Feb. 7 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar will hold a book and painting exhibition at the Myawady Media Center in Yangon to mark the 78th anniversary of Union Day, the official daily The Mirror reported ...

The newfound painting was likely created a few months before Picasso started his official portrait. "Picasso often reused his canvases at this time because he did not have much money. However ...

Painting miniatures is a good, chill time. Since I picked the hobby back up in 2017 I’ve spent hundreds of hours away from my screens, listening to good music and great podcasts. And ...

"The Soviet Union took on the West and lost," he said. Sikorski said that Putin "is on the record saying that under Brezhnev, the Soviet Union overspent on the military and bankrupted the country." ...

When asked what would have happened if on November 22, 1963 Nikita Khrushchev had been assassinated in place of John F Kennedy, Douglas-Home replied that he did not know how the whole course of ...

Read more at http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/Nikita-in-Hollywood.html As part of a diplomatic mission, Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev traveled ...

Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev traveled across the United States, meeting Americans from New York to Iowa to California. The Gory Origins of Valentine's Day (02:50) National Treasure ...

The Kremlin on Thursday “respectfully” disputed US President Donald Trump’s recent remarks on the Soviet Union playing a supportive role during World War II. On Wednesday, Trump said on his ...