The Soviet Union, during its almost 70 years of existence, took a backward, quasi-feudal realm ruled by an autocratic tsar and turned it into a modern, global superpower rivalled by the United States.

The Soviet Union was believed to be brutally restrictive, but after Joseph Stalin died in 1953, there were changes to everyday life. Colleagues congratulate the best seamstress of the sewing shop.

Schlögel variously calls his book an archaeology, an exhibition, and a museum of the Soviet “lifeworld.” Its focus on the things of everyday life makes it, in his view, not an “encyclopedia ...

The Soviet Union had just lost three leaders in short succession, all older men who died in office. And, you know, Gorbachev seemed the remedy to that. He was just 54 years old when he was nominated.

Mikhail Gorbachev, the final leader of the Soviet Union, died at the age of 91 of "a long and grave illness," Russian news agencies reported Tuesday. Gorbachev was one of the major political ...

In June 1941, Germany launched its ruinous invasion of the Soviet Union on a scale so large that it's almost impossible to process. Grossman was dispatched to the frontline as a war correspondent ...

1 Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who died on August 30 at age 91, speaks during a news conference marking the 20th anniversary of perestroika at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington ...

Here's the standard high school history class summary of the Soviet Union: The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a communist state from 1922 to 1991 and was a big rival of the US from ...