In 1949, the USSR shocks the world by detonating its first atomic bomb far sooner than expected. This episode reveals how ...

Road to Revenge, his sequel to the 2022 sleeper hit Sisu, plants us in the grim fringes of Soviet-controlled territory.

The Kremlin said on Tuesday that European claims that Russian President Vladimir Putin wanted to restore the Soviet Union ...

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

A Russian feminist reflects on Julia Ioffe’s history of modern Russia.

As Steve Witkoff meets with Putin over a Ukraine deal, security assurances remain a sticking point. Ukraine has been offered ...

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

Once a testing ground for Soviet weapons, the country is using a unique facility to find materials that withstand plasma that ...

During the Cold War, the Soviet Union devised a shocking plan to weaponize asteroids in a project nicknamed Ivan’s Hammer.

Dear Editor, A succession of presidents knew how to deal with the Soviet Union/Russia. FDR, Truman, Ike, JFK, LBJ, both Bushs and Ronald Reagan who was present when the Warsaw Pact countries were ...

The Maoist doctrine of agrarian armed struggle influenced sections of India’s Left since the 1940s and posed a major security ...

From power struggles to global crises, explore how major events between 8 and 14 December were captured on The Independent’s ...