The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 ended decades of Cold War tension and reshaped global politics. But what if the USSR never fell? What if Gorbachev’s reforms had succeeded, transforming the ...

National Archives and Records Administration The space race between the United States and the Soviet Union stepped up a gear ...

A statue of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin was unveiled in the Taganskaya metro station in Moscow in May, recreating a mural ...

The CIA has released 1,500 pages of previously classified documents relating to the assassination of New York Sen. Robert F.

The Soviets believed that this attack would only work if the missiles were launched within one minute. If they waited even ...

Some of the Stalin nostalgia may be attributable to the coincidence (okay, not really a coincidence) that Stalin led the ...

The World’s Daniel Ofman speaks with journalists Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan about their new book that documents their ...

Senaator Rand Paul (R-KY) condemned Saturday's military parade in Washington, comparing it to similar marches in the Soviet Union and North Korea.

Mr. Patterson, who was born in Moscow and spent most of his life in Russia, came to Washington after the collapse of the Soviet Union and to live closer to his father’s relatives. His one high ...

Investigators suspect that K.G.B. operatives, working undercover in Brazil during the last years of the Soviet Union, may have filed birth certificates in the names of fictitious newborns ...