The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 ended decades of Cold War tension and reshaped global politics. But what if the USSR never fell? What if Gorbachev’s reforms had succeeded, transforming the ...

National Archives and Records Administration The space race between the United States and the Soviet Union stepped up a gear ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that in his view the whole of Ukraine was "ours" and cautioned that advancing ...

Putin’s war in Ukraine is not just about territory—it’s a calculated move rooted in history to reclaim Russia's global ...

The CIA has released 1,500 pages of previously classified documents relating to the assassination of New York Sen. Robert F.

The Soviets believed that this attack would only work if the missiles were launched within one minute. If they waited even ...

For 50 years, a 23-meter, 7.5-ton statue of Vadimir Lenin swept his arm out over Kyrgyzstan’s second city of Osh from a perch ...

Senaator Rand Paul (R-KY) condemned Saturday's military parade in Washington, comparing it to similar marches in the Soviet Union and North Korea.

To that end, [msylvain59] has been kind enough to give us a look inside the Elektronika MK-26—a calculator built in the former Soviet Union. There’s lots of interesting stuff to see from the ...

Mr. Patterson, who was born in Moscow and spent most of his life in Russia, came to Washington after the collapse of the Soviet Union and to live closer to his father’s relatives. His one high ...