For years he lived a double life, secretly making anti-Communist paintings. He found fame in the late 1980s, once his work ...

As the Kremlin’s hard-line Communist ideologist, he initially embraced his boss’s modernizing reforms before turning against ...

Explore the fascinating tale of the Kola Superdeep Borehole, a monumental scientific endeavor by the Soviet Union that aimed ...

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 ...

Russian Yuri Knorozov cracked the previously undecipherable Maya code, and remarkably, did it long before he ever visited ...

A Soviet machine gun team during World War II. After losing as many as 100,000 troops killed and wounded in Ukraine and forcibly drafting 300,000 unwilling men to replace them, the Russian army ...

The Soviet state created the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee in 1942 to aid the war effort at home and abroad. Its chairman, ...

OKOBOJI, Iowa (KTIV) - The Pearson Lakes Arts Center will open the Goodenow Gallery on Thursday with a grand opening ceremony ...

The USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) was formed after the Civil war of 1921 as the World's first Marxist-Communist state in the world. After that it would become one of the biggest and most ...

** When you buy products through the links on our site, we may earn a commission that supports NRA's mission to protect, preserve and defend the Second Amendment. ** Partisan bands had a rag-tag ...

The Soviet economy was the second largest in the world, but long queues and empty store shelves are the main things many people remember about it. Goods were cheap but there were constant shortages.

Countless words will be dedicated in the following days to Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet leader who died Aug. 30 at the age of 91. But throughout his obituaries, two specific words will likely be ...