CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the life of Mikhail Gorbachev, former president of the USSR.PersonalBirth date: March 2, 1931Death date: August ...

"The Soviet Union took on the West and lost," he said. Sikorski said that Putin "is on the record saying that under Brezhnev, the Soviet Union overspent on the military and bankrupted the country." ...

The status of the Crimean Peninsula has entered international public consciousness over the past decade. Since the events of ...

Recently published books can help readers better understand Russia and the war in Ukraine. Here is a list of must-read books.

John Adams, a graduate student at the University of California, during the preparation of his thesis, asked the ChatGPT neural network to compile a rating of the best states in the history of mankind.

Indeed there is reason to suspect that the real purpose in using them was less to force a Japanese defeat than to warn the Soviet Union to be amenable to American wishes in the construction of the ...

Ever an optimist and a peacemaker, Lozansky advocates “resetting the clock with Russia.” ...

Approximately 90 African Americans have been identified as serving in the Abraham Lincoln Battalion. Unlike the American ...

China and Russia’s 2022 proclamation of a “no limits” partnership with “no ‘forbidden’ areas” has had a far-reaching effect.

Mr. Schmemann, a member of the editorial board, is a former Moscow bureau chief for The Times. It was March 1994, more than two years after the Soviet Union disintegrated, and the debates within ...

The Führer’s deputy embarks on an astonishing secret mission. After baling out Mussolini in the Balkans, German troops finally march into the Soviet Union. Undeterred by the bloodshed, Hitler will ...

H. W. Brands, the author of numerous books on American history, including one of the better biographies of President Ronald ...