Putin is interested in 'fundamentally changing borders in Europe and restoring old Soviet Union within borders of old Soviet Union,' Friedrich Merz says - Anadolu Ajansı

Following the horrifying nuclear detonations over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Soviet Union initially lagged in the atomic arms race. However, thanks to successful, dedicated espionage activities, the Soviets rapidly caught up,

The groundbreaking “Have Blue” design, which ultimately became the F-117 Nighthawk, relied heavily on research conducted by Soviet physicist Pyotr Ufimtsev.

As the Kremlin’s hard-line Communist ideologist, he initially embraced his boss’s modernizing reforms before turning against them as threats to the Soviet order.

From 2013 to 2015, Russian photographer Danila Tkachenko traveled thousands of miles to some of the most remote regions of the country to photograph once-proud structures of the Soviet Union that have fallen into ruin. The collection, titled Restricted ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, has died at age 91, Russian state media reported and his personal press secretary Vladimir Polyakov confirmed to CBS News. His cause of death was not immediately released, but Gorbachev's office had ...

The often misunderstood history of the Soviet dissident movement. In To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause, historian Benjamin Nathans sheds light on how the protest movement reinvented itself at key junctures and eventually to great effect. Why do some ...

On December 1, 1991, the people of Ukraine voted overwhelmingly 92% to 8% to be an independent country, no longer a part of the Soviet Union (which soon dissolved on December 26, 1991). From December 2,

As German forces massed along the Soviet border, Stalin repeatedly dismissed urgent intelligence reports as mere provocation, placing his faith in the Nazi–Soviet Pact. This episode follows the tense build-up to Operation Barbarossa and shows how disbelief,