soviet union

This question has been asked ever since the Bolsheviks seized power in Russia in 1917 and transformed Czarist Russia into the Soviet Union. Although Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin and all the other communist leaders claimed they were aiming to transform Russia into a socialist society, many political...

I'm not sure if this came up in another thread at the time of publication, but a January 2007 article by former Romanian spymaster Ion Mihai Pacepa gives a fascinating, largely first-hand account of what the author calls the KGB's "super-secret plan for destroying the Vatican's moral authority...