In 1949, the USSR shocks the world by detonating its first atomic bomb far sooner than expected. This episode reveals how ...

Apologists for the Soviet Union frequently claim that it was Josef Stalin’s ostensibly benevolent and virtuous regime that ...

For years he lived a double life, secretly making anti-Communist paintings. He found fame in the late 1980s, once his work ...

By Dmitry Antonov MOSCOW, Dec 9 (Reuters) - The Kremlin said on Tuesday that European claims that Russian President Vladimir ...

As the Kremlin’s hard-line Communist ideologist, he initially embraced his boss’s modernizing reforms before turning against ...

How did a giant radio telescope in Cheshire help the West monitor the Soviet Union's nuclear missiles?

Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, has died at age 91, Russian state media reported and his personal press secretary Vladimir Polyakov confirmed to CBS News. His cause of death ...

In 1987, a teenager with limited flying experience managed to fly straight into the heart of the Soviet Union, evading one of ...

Built on the perimeter of an open pit mine or on the permafrost fringes of a massive car factory, the company towns of the former Soviet Union are urban developments of economic extremes. With ...

Auburn football coach Alex Golesh was born in Moscow, and his family fled the Soviet Union in 1991. Here's what he said about ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, the final leader of the Soviet Union who brought in reforms credited with ending the Cold War, died Tuesday. He was 91. Gorbachev died after a long illness, Moscow’s Central ...

MOSCOW, Russia — Before Mikhail Gorbachev came along, the Soviet Union seemed an immovable superpower in perpetual antagonism to the United States. With a breathtaking series of reforms, Gorbachev ...