The course will examine the rise, survival and collapse of the Soviet Communist ideology and Communist regimes based in Russia and Eastern Europe during the period 1917-1990. The course will also deal ...

Russia was a part of the Soviet Union. The communist government owned the country's diverse economic assets, controlled the labor force and allocated all resources. It was a command economic system.

Russian President Vladimir Putin awards the Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov with the title of Hero of Labour of the Russian Federation during a ceremony at the Kremlin in Moscow ...

The aspirations of the Russian elite and the failure of the state machinery to meet their lofty goals define Moscow’s actions ...