The Soviet Union dissolved in December 1991 after years of economic strain and growing challenges to Moscow’s authority. This documentary examines shortages, rising debt, the costs of the Afghanistan ...

The United States and the Soviet Union pulled back from the nuclear brink, chastened by their brush with nuclear Armageddon.

When studying the Russian Revolution and the Soviet Union (USSR) in junior high school history, two figures appear: Lenin and Stalin. While both had a major impact on the construction and development ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, died in Moscow, on Tuesday, at the age of ninety-one. In the last two decades of his life, he rarely granted interviews. So, in 2010, when he ...

An admission thirty years after the fact revealed that President John F. Kennedy came closer to nuclear war in October 1962 ...

The Cuban Missile Crisis, we analyzed the 13 days that brought us to the brink of nuclear war using the "Chicken Game." While ...

Kazakhstan is struggling to deal with the legacy of the Soviet dictatorship. Some 85 years ago, Stalin deported hundreds of ...

The Hungarian Revolution Was the First Tear in the Iron Curtain How the Author of the Constitution Won, Eventually Reunion with Rome: An Orthodox Perspective It remains a warning to the West: ...

Mikhail Gorbachev – the last leader of the former Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991 – has died at the age of 91. Gorbachev died after a long illness, Russian state news agencies reported. “Mikhail ...

On 4 November 1956, Russian forces moved into Budapest as part of an offensive against a national uprising that called for democratic reforms and an end to Soviet occupation ...

The Trump administration has been weighing launching fresh strikes on Iran. If a fresh offensive begins, the US could use the ...

Ever since he became prime minister then president of Russia, Vladimir Putin has made no secret of restoring Russia to its superpower status. He has been bulking up the military and attempting to pull ...