80th anniversary of the victory that crushed Nazism, liberated Europe, and laid the foundations of the African national freedom movement ...

The essays in Polish Jews in the Soviet Union, 1939-1959 recount these tumultuous events with clarity, though several are as dry as dust and tend to be repetitive.

Poland's foreign minister said Putin used to criticize the Soviet approach that helped bankrupt it, but now he's repeating the mistake.

By April 1983, Samantha Smith, now 10, was worried as Cold War tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union raised the threat of nuclear confrontation.

Although the Soviet Union, now the Russian Federation, has never sent an astronaut to the Moon, they still helped pave the way for human space exploration.

This book offers the lay reader a concise, chronological account of the Soviet Union premised on the notion that accidents, rather than inevitabilities, drive human history.

100 Years Since the Birth of the Soviet Union, in Pictures Communist Party supporters laid flowers at Stalin’s grave in Moscow this month, marking the anniversary of his birth.

The CCP has always been invested in avoiding the fate of its Soviet counterpart. But Chinese leaders’ lessons from the Soviet collapse have changed over the years.

Here is a timeline of some key events over the nearly seven years that Mikhail Gorbachev, who died on Tuesday at age 91, held power in the Soviet Union.

Mikhail S. Gorbachev, Soviet leader who knocked down the walls between East and West, dies at 91.