By Gamini Jayaweera In 1985, former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who assumed the presidency of the USSR, sought to reform ...

Explore the powerful and secretive world of the KGB, the Soviet Union's intelligence agency. Discover their operations, ...

The film discusses socialism and its parallels with communism, tracing their origins to Marx and Engels. It defines socialism ...

As Russia prepared to invade Ukraine, we took a look at the history of the complex relationship between the nations.

It turns out that Vladimir Lenin and REM were right. Francis Fukuyama was wrong. In 1921, during the Soviet Union’s New ...

On a cold December morning in 1975, Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov met a Norwegian diplomat on a Moscow street to hand over ...

On a cold December morning in 1975, Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov met a Norwegian diplomat on a Moscow street to hand over ...

A submarine base in Balaklava was once a Soviet secret, then it reopened as a tourist museum. Now, observers claim the base ...

Photographer Rena Effendi learned that a little-known species was named after her late father, a renowned butterfly expert.

This Saturday marks the 45th anniversary of the “Miracle on Ice,” when the U.S. hockey team defeated the Soviet Union 4-3, an ...

I found myself going through some materials about President Richard Nixon—books and copies of old speeches. I reached for one ...

The U.S. is embracing European far-right parties in sympathy with Moscow — the opposite of how Washington dealt with Europe’s ...