He documents how from the outset of Russian revolution of 1917, when 13,000 US troops joined other European forces in seeking to overthrow the socialist state by force, down to the present, whichever party was Washington has sought to hem in and undermine first Soviet Union and now Russian Federation. ..…

He studied economics for while at the University of Michigan, before dropping out altogether, order to become beatnik at Vesuvius café San Francisco's North Beach and then reentered University of Chicago by the door through Bert Hoselitz's research center on Economic Development and Cultural..…

Data on the religious beliefs and practices of Orthodox Christians in nine countries across the former Soviet Union and five other countries in Europe, including Greece, are from surveys conducted by Pew Research Center in 2015-2016. ..…

That said, sentiment was split when Pew Research Center asked people in former Soviet republics whether it was more important for their country to have “strong ties” with the European Union or with Russia. ..…

Pew Research Center polled Muslims in Soviet republics of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, Bosnia and Kosovo, as part of 2012 survey of Muslims 40 countries around the world. ..…

An additional 15% of FSU Jews say they came from 2000 to 2014, while a similar share (12%) say they arrived prior to 1990, according to data from a new Pew Research Center survey of Israel. . The Soviet Jews brought a secular mindset to Israel, and more than two decades later, Jews who were..…

Other findings from the Pew Research Center survey include: . Jews from the former Soviet Union and their offspring account for roughly one-tenth of the U.S. ..…

Russia has 12.3 million residents who are classified by the United Nations as immigrants, but the vast majority were born in countries that had been a part of the Soviet Union prior to its breakup in 1991. ↩ . Pew Hispanic Center tabulations of 2010 American Community Survey (1% IPUMS)...…

Soviet cities would be starved and, in special cases such as Leningrad, leveled. ... In a secondary offensive, code-named Operation Typhoon, Army Group Center raced through Soviet Belarus and into Soviet Russia in October 1941. ..…