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.

His laconic, humane irony illuminated life in the Soviet Union like a sudden burst of laughter during a police interrogation. It would be very sad indeed if he came to be an exile from the Soviet ...

Life in a totally different country can be confusing sometimes. I entered Leningrad's university in 1986, graduated, then immigrated to Canada in 1999, traveled a lot, now live in California since ...

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.

But “Life and Fate” was not published in the Soviet Union until 1988 , 24 years after Grossman died at the age of 58, and even then only in an abridged version.

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 ...

The Soviet Union Killed an Appalling Number of Whales. I Wanted to Know Why. The history of Soviet whaling belongs to anyone who looks out to sea and sees nothing.

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 ...