Here's the standard high school history class summary of the Soviet Union: The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was ...

It was the end for the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). Events unfolded in a deliberately discreet location: a hunting lodge for the Soviet elite tucked away in a forest in Belarus.

In To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause, historian Benjamin Nathans sheds light on how the protest movement reinvented itself at key junctures and eventually to great effect.

The two sides did not ever go to war. , but more to do with the problems faced by the USSR at home and abroad. In March 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev was elected as leader of the USSR. He was one of a ...

The plane never entered serial production, but it did contribute mightily to the overall design and development of future Russian aircraft.

MOSCOW, August 10. /TASS/. Former USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev has said Monday that the end of the Cold War has become a global achievement, not US victory. "The Cold War was over, we put an ...