The Soviet Union killed millions in famine and the Gulag prison camps, deported millions of members of ethnic minority groups from their homes, and kept Europe divided and unfree for two generations.

When I read the Santa Ana Liberated Ethnic Studies Curriculum for the first time in September 2023, it brought back childhood memories from growing up in the Soviet Union. Liberated ES is ...

It’s been 33 years now since the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 into 15 separate ... The borders of the republics roughly followed where ethnic groups had settled without regard for geography.

The Soviet remaking of the Pale Jews. The trials and tribulations of a tumultuous period. Jewish children in the Soviet Union’s youth movement in Minsk. Established in 1791 as the exclusive zone ...

After more than half the population of an ethnic Armenian enclave fled their ... Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh began as the then-Soviet Union weakened in the late 1980s, and Armenians demanded ...

The Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, which had been independent between the two world wars, were annexed by the Kremlin in June of 1940, during the dramatic days when Paris fell to the ...

Images from The Red Atlas: How the Soviet Union Secretly Mapped America, by John Davies and Alexander J. Kent, published by the University of Chicago Press In this map of San Diego, the added ...

SOVIET AND POST-SOVIET IMMIGRATION. The growing community of immigrants from RUSSIA and the former Soviet Union is becoming a palpable presence ... the year 1993 saw the arrival of 10 ethnic Russians, ...

To the dissidents of the Soviet Union, that question was so relevant ... the persecution of religious and ethnic minorities, and other human rights violations. At this low point, the dissident ...

Around 50,000 ethnic Buryats currently live in Mongolia. “They were afraid for themselves and for their children,” Tsevelmaa says of the reasons her relatives fled the Soviet Union as it was ...