An author of books on Russia who spoke the language, she had no diplomatic experience but formed an unlikely bond with the president.

Poland's foreign minister said Putin used to criticize the Soviet approach that helped bankrupt it, but now he's repeating ...

A controversial memoir of a Finnish woman who migrated to Stalin’s Soviet Russia in the 1930s and escaped in 1941. Ninety ...

Hidden in a Moscow air museum, the Soviet VVA-14 is one of the weirdest aircraft ever built! Designed to hover, take off ...

A newly declassified analysis argued against “shock therapy” for the former Soviet Union. The warning wasn’t heeded.

In To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause, historian Benjamin Nathans sheds light on how the protest movement reinvented itself ...

Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov won a world championship title together in pairs skating in 1994 and narrowly missed out ...

Lockheed's radical Sea Shadow provided valuable insights into adapting stealth technology for the sea. Its influence lives on.

If you're alarmed as I am by the new president's first actions in office, the Soviet dissident Alexander Esenin-Volpin has ...

Here's the standard high school history class summary of the Soviet Union: The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was ...

MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday (Jan 27) praised Soviet soldiers for ending the "total evil" ...