Why the bomb laid under the foundation of the USSR exploded

How Soviet citizens ended up voting unanimously in elections

When Nikita Khrushchev came to power, he brought a "Ukrainian clan" with him. It later removed their patron from the helm of the USSR

The story of a Stalin-era shady businessman

Finnish historian talks about the relations between Finland and USSR after World War II, the prospects of neutrality for Ukraine, and the future of a new Cold War

On the maladies afflicting Ukraine’s National Academy of Sciences and its chances of recovery

International lawyer Volodymyr Vasylenko speaks about the events leading to Ukraine's independence

After the USSR collapsed, Russia delved into amnesia, then into rehabilitation of the Soviet past which turned grotesque through guilty conscience and lack of culture

Stalin’s moves to establish communist governments in Central and Eastern Europe relied largely on local elements and tools already tested in the USSR

"Not all countries will become successful democracies. But I still think of liberal democracy as the only serious alternative"

Currently, Ukrainian archives store 79,105 classified secret files of Soviet age, State Archives Service of Ukraine reports

The myths of the “Great Patriotic War” are a massive misrepresentation of history and a tricky political trap for Ukrainians who are forbidden from recovering their own history and claiming recognition of their suffering

On 25 June 2013, George Orwell (1903–1950) would turn 110. He appears to have been the real prophet of totalitarianism, and far and away the most insightful writer in the West who got the very essence of the tragedy of Eastern Europe.

The 1953 uprising initiated by Ukrainian political prisoners in the Norilsk forced labour camp was the first step towards the downfall of the Gulag.

Over the past 2.5 years, Ukrainians have grown less nostalgic over the USSR, reports Rating, a sociological group, based on its survey held in March.

Dutch Sovietologist Robert van Voren speaks about Soviet repressive psychiatry and its surviving offshoots

The sovietization of Western Ukraine in 1939-41 was a triumph of Bolshevik barbarity over the more cultured “liberated” population

Several operations against national minorities were carried out alongside class-based persecutions and purges among ranking party members in Ukraine

The Ukrainian government has implemented just one of all the “reforms” it declared two years ago – cultural policy in Ukraine has returned to the Russian-Soviet framework

The Treaty of Rapallo between the Weimar Republic and Soviet Russia paved the way to a revival of German military power after the First World War

The omnipresent “managing and leading force” of soviet gender norms dominated relationships between men and women in the Soviet Union, leaving a heavy imprint on their development and evolution

The socio-cultural revolution of soviet mods against boring clothes, music and behaviour in the USSR

Contemporary watches do not tick. They produce no sounds at all

Ronaldas Racinkas, who is tasked with providing a legal assessment of the crimes committed by totalitarian regimes against Lithuanians, speaks on his country’s successes and its failures in saying goodbye to its Soviet legacy

How Homo Sovieticus was created

The last mass deportation of Ukrainians was carried out 60 years ago to satisfy Moscow's interests

A mass grave of what appear to be victims of the NKVD killed in 1939-41 has been discovered in Volodymyr-Volynsky

How Soviet myths about the “Great Patriotic War” and the “Great Victory” were created and what they concealed

In 2011, Ukraine will in many ways look like the USSR at the time of stagnation