Aug. 24, 2022 marked both the 31st anniversary of Ukraine’s independence from the Soviet Union and the six-month mark of war. As they have for more than three decades, Ukrainians showed resilience.
L’expertise universitaire, l’exigence journalistique
Articles sur Soviet Union (USSR)
Affichage de 61 à 80 de 260 articles
With a formidable Kremlinologist in charge and Donald Trump out of the presidential picture, has the CIA regained its influence amid the ‘new cold war’?
In much of eastern Europe historical memory of communist rule has been brought into sharp focus by the war in Ukraine.
The Soviet Union was a latecomer to industrial whaling, but it slaughtered whales by the thousands once it started and radically under-reported its take to international monitors.
During the Cold War, Russia’s refusal to allow Jews to leave the country reflected its political aims. The same is likely true today, a Jewish studies scholar explains.
Russia’s national history and origin story remain unclear.
The United States still sees itself as the world’s one and only superpower… The reality is now quite different: for several years, the country has been undergoing a slow but inevitable decline.
While there are good reasons not to exaggerate these events, the bad news is these incidents are almost certain to continue. But we shouldn’t frame them as if we’re in the brink of war.
US plans to add more combat-ready forces in eastern Europe to send a strong message to Russia.
For hundreds of years, Russia has elevated its political leaders as figureheads. That’s part of what makes its propaganda so convincing.
Russia’s war in Ukraine calls for drawing a line between power and luck. Putin, who was widely considered among the most powerful people in the world, may have been simply lucky.
Can social media posts sustain Russia’s endangered dissident cultures?
Studies on Ukraine going as far back as the late 1990s and early 2000s showed that the country’s population was connecting less and less with Russia.
The West’s new approach to Russia – bar it from international organizations, restrict international trade, prevent further military moves – looks just like how it treated Russia in the 20th century.
Military tensions and political concern are heating up in Transnistria, a breakaway state of Moldova that borders Ukraine. An Eastern European expert answers four key questions about this region.
Ukrainian fighters are utilizing a maze of tunnels in Mariupol and other key cities. The use of the underground in conflict has a rich history.
Not all nations have joined in a united front against Russia’s invasion. The conflict and talk of a new Cold War could reignite the nonaligned movement.
Russia’s take on the Second World War is not merely for nationalist consumption. The actions of the Soviet Union in defeating Nazi Germany appear to be a blueprint for the Russian attack on Ukraine.
India has stood apart from other major democracies in failing to offer a full-throated condemnation of Russia over its invasion of Ukraine. Here’s why.
Many Russians hanker for the old USSR, but it has more to do with cultural and economic nostalgia than wanting the old Soviet empire back.
Les contributeurs les plus fréquents
-
Professor of Military History, University of Calgary
-
Professor of History and Political Science, University of Michigan
-
Associate Professor of Instruction in the School of Interdisciplinary Global Studies, Affiliate Professor at the Institute for Russian, European, and Eurasian Studies, University of South Florida
-
Quondam Fellow of All Souls College, University of Oxford
-
Associate Professor of History, Gonzaga University
-
Professor, Russian and East European History, University of Alberta
-
Professor of History at the Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences, Australian Catholic University
-
Political Scientist, University of the Western Cape
-
Senior researcher, Centre for Social Change, University of Johannesburg
-
Professor of International Politics and Director of the Center for Strategic Studies, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
-
Reader in International Journalism, City, University of London
-
Emeritus Professor, University of Cape Town
-
Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
-
Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Defense Analysis, Naval Postgraduate School
-
Professor of History, Clarkson University
