Following the horrifying nuclear detonations over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Soviet Union initially lagged in the atomic ...

The often misunderstood history of the Soviet dissident movement. In To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause, historian Benjamin Nathans sheds light on how the protest movement reinvented itself at key ...

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

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

Road to Revenge, his sequel to the 2022 sleeper hit Sisu, plants us in the grim fringes of Soviet-controlled territory.

The secret Cold War role played by a giant radio telescope in the middle of the Cheshire countryside has been revealed. Jodrell Bank Observatory monitored Soviet missiles as nuclear tensions between ...

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 ...

The Kremlin said on Tuesday that European claims that Russian President Vladimir Putin wanted to restore the Soviet Union ...

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

The Yak-38 was meant to give the Soviet Navy a modern VTOL fighter, but it quickly became one of the most unreliable jets ever put on a carrier. Its triple-engine layout consumed fuel, demanded ...

How did the Soviets manage to become the most powerful industrial power in the world and what do they owe their success to? Why were spacious, privately owned apartments split into numerous tiny rooms ...

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 ...