They showed that a small number of activists can have an outsized impact even under circumstances that, in every imaginable ...

The story of the Soviet leader’s time in power, his policies against Jews, and his relationship with Israel and Zionism ...

Former prisoners of the Soviet Union's communist regime have written a letter addressing Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy ...

Armenia and Azerbaijan were locked in conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh for nearly four decades after the Soviet Union they were ...

This year—25 years after the Soviet Union’s collapse—I went back again, to meet these young people like Sasha. Who are they? What do they want from their lives? What do they want for Russia?

Activist, chef, and cookbook author Yevhen Klopotenko is peeling away layers of Soviet-era influence on the table.

While it lasted, the Soviet Union was defined by many actions and ideas that captured the unique practices required to survive its politics. This quiz remembers a few.

The story and legacy of the vast Soviet nuclear test site in Kazakhstan, The Polygon ...

Teaching of history in the Soviet Union and Russia has always focused ... Great Patriotic War than on Nazi extermination of Jewish people. And aspects such as the secret Nazi-Soviet pact ...

The US responds with an 11-month long airlift of supplies to people trapped in that part of the city. On 29 August 1949 the Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb. The Cold War begins in earnest.