On March 5, 1953, the Soviet Union faced a massive shift in power. Joseph Stalin, the leader who had ruled the nation since 1924, died in ...

A U.S. diplomat’s warning about the Soviet Union’s grand strategy helped produce the strategy of containment that won the Cold War.

Dmitri Shostakovich: the Soviet voice of the oppressed. Discover the lives and works of all the great composers, at classical ...

In a historic former Soviet reserve in the magnificent Uzbek mountains, Michaela Strachan and India Latham find rare signs of ...

MOSCOW — Anna Akhmatova, the poet, died today, after a lifetime of controversy. According to Tass, the Soviet press agency, her age was 76.

A career diplomat who served more than three decades in the Indian Foreign Service, Sandhu replaces Vinai Kumar Saxena, who ...

Four years and 1.2 million casualties later, Russia remains bogged down in a grinding war of attrition in Ukraine — a war ...

When the roar of jet engines echoed over the frozen landscapes of North Korea in 1952, it often signaled a clash of titans in the skies. But on one particular ...

ON FEBRUARY 24 1956, 10 days after it opened in Moscow, delegates to the Communist Party of the Soviet Union’s (CPSU) 20th ...

The usual perception of Soviet Jewish literature after World War II is that there was none. The conversation around the decades after the Holocaust usually focuses on the refuseniks and ...

Elizabeth Ellis of Rochester found her 1955 two-week stay in the Soviet Union to be “a wonderful educational experience.” However, she told the Post-Bulletin, “I wouldn’t suggest a trip to Russia for ...

“In jail and in the camps Shukhov had lost the habit of scheming how he was going to feed his family from day to day or year to year. The bosses did all his thinking for him, and that somehow made ...