Evgeny Velikhov's many accomplishments in reducing the threat from nuclear weapons—during and after the Cold War—are ...

CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the life of Mikhail Gorbachev, former president of the USSR.PersonalBirth date: March 2, 1931Death date: August ...

Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev issued a series of reforms and the Communist Party gave up its 70-year monopoly of political power in the Soviet Union.

Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev issued a series of reforms and the Communist Party gave up its 70-year monopoly of political ...

The geographical proximity of the US and Russia to the Arctic Ocean will generate a constant political tremor in the ...

The Kremlin propaganda point that seems most attractive to extremists on the left and the right views Russia as a victim of ...

Yahrzeit of Rabbi Eliezer Silver of Cincinnati, who, as head of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis, raised millions of dollars ...

An unusual agreement made during the Cold War led to Pepsi receiving many submarines as a penance for selling its popular, ...

The Rest is History podcast co-host and historian Dominic Sandbrook is working with composer Joseph Phibbs to produce a ...

Film director Karen Shakhnazarov said he was in favor of America's current leadership as it weakened Moscow's "main adversary." ...

Ronald Wilson Reagan was born on this day in 1911. His legacy still shapes American politics, historians say, and he's a ...

“We are prone to overestimate how much we understand about the world and to underestimate the role of chance in events,” ...