At a recent meeting with his US counterpart, Russian President Vladimir Putin once again suggested that full control of Donbas was a central criterion for ending the war in Ukraine. Why is the region ...

Troops from the Soviet Union, along with other members of the Warsaw Pact, invaded Czechoslovakia on 1968. This came as a ...

Throughout its brief but interesting life, the Progvev-T encountered numerous problems that ultimately doomed this gonzo idea ...

The economy of the Soviet Union was one of the most ambitious economic experiments in history. For over 70 years, the USSR ...

The Soviet Delta II class marked a key step in the evolution of ballistic missile submarines during the Cold War. In this ...

Once suppressed under communist rule, the feast of St. Stephen is now the country’s defining civic and religious holiday.

Bouverie writes a splendid history of the World War II alliance between the United Kingdom, the United States, and the Soviet Union.

The Soviet Union’s first McDonald’s, located across Pushkin Square on Gorky Street, opened on Jan. 31, 1990 — a yellow-arched symbol of Gorbachev’s perestroika economic reforms.

On December 8, 1991, heads of three of the Soviet Union’s fifteen republics, led by Boris Yeltsin of Russia, met there to sign documents abolishing the Soviet state.