Children on a donkey in early Soviet Union, taken by an enthusiastic photographer. One of the oldest photos in our family’s collection. My grandfather Arkady in Tashkent, in the early 1920s, together ...

In the final years of his life, Vladimir Lenin oversaw a major campaign against religious institutions as the Soviet state consolidated power. This episode explores how Bolshevik ideology, political ...

Space is the ultimate canvas for the imagination, and in the 1950s and '60s, as part of the space race with the United States, the solar system was the blank page upon which the Soviet Union etched a ...

In 1990, National Geographic went to the Soviet Union to report on one of the worst environmental disasters of the 20th ...