Slowed down so you can understand what students are saying in English.. Soviet-era educational film for teaching English to students. The transcript captures a chaotic classroom discussion where ...

For most of us in the West, until the fall of the Berlin Wall “Russia” was synonymous with the Soviet Union. Among the 15 ...

In 1982 a Russian translation of Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind was issued in the Soviet Union. Judging by reports from that quarter, the book has been an enormous success—with those readers ...

One of the many little-known facts about the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is that some 25% of its territory lies north of the Arctic Circle. The Soviet Arctic (some of which is south of the ...

The war in Ukraine drew attention to the complicated China-Russian relationship. Since the Soviet Union era, Beijing has had mixed sentiments toward Moscow. The Soviet Union was the “big brother” and ...