TASS /. Russia’s population, according to some estimates, could now reach 500 mln people, if not for the two disintegrations of the country in the 20th century, President Vladimir Putin stated ...

These stories from the 20th century will familiarize students with Soviet or émigré writers who are often lesser known but are no less skilled than their 19th century forebears, including Nabokov, ...

One hundred years after the outbreak of World War I and the Russian Revolution, none of the problems of the twentieth century—devastating wars, economic crises, social inequality, and the threat ...

WASHINGTON, August 31. /TASS/. Mikhail Gorbachev, the first and only president of the Soviet Union, was one of the most influential leaders of the 20th century who will be missed, Dan Quayle ...

social and cultural history of the trials and triumphs of Russia and the Soviet Union during the twentieth century. It encompasses not only the ethnically Russian part of the country but also the ...