Mikhail Gorbachev, the man who presided over the dissolution of the Soviet Empire, died this week. In the West he was hailed as the man who turned the Soviet Union away from communism and brought ...

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 ...

The Cold War was a global struggle of the United States and democratic capitalism vs. the Soviet Union and communism. It erupted in the mid-1940s after both nations emerged from World War II as ...

For most of us in the West, until the fall of the Berlin Wall “Russia” was synonymous with the Soviet Union. Among the 15 ...

Twenty-five years ago, after the fall of the Soviet Union, an academic at the University of Warwick began work in the Russian archives to map the sophisticated regime that made the Soviet Union the ...

Everyone seems to agree with the idea of learning from history, but few seem to actually do so. Today, the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation marks Victims of Communism Memorial Day. The ...

During the Cold War, South Yemen became the only openly communist state in the Arab world. Backed by the Soviet Union, its ...

As Bernie Sanders was building his political career as a Vermont mayor, he visited the Soviet Union in 1988 for a 10-day "honeymoon" and returned to America extolling how impressive the communist ...

In 1991, the Soviet Union collapsed. It marked the end of an experiment that lasted almost a century testing the premise that godless secularization, turning control of people's lives over to other ...

Republicans are condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine by calling Russian President Vladimir Putin a “Soviet” leader who runs a “communist” country, even though the Soviet Union was dissolved in 1991 ...