As Europe was sleeping on November 7, 1983, the Soviets began mobilizing their troops, preparing their air force, and ...

Years after being catapulted to national fame in the U.S.S.R. as a child actor, he wrote about ideals of racial harmony and ...

From industrial juggernaut to economic disaster, the Soviet Union’s economy tells the dramatic story of a global superpower built on centralized control, rapid expansion—and eventual collapse. Explore ...

As the war drags on and on, the Kremlin has taken a two-pronged approach to the West. Domestically, the Kremlin has demonized ...

Mark Rutte had an unenviable task at the Hague summit this week. The Nato secretary-general had to work with diverging ...

The CIA has released 1,500 pages of previously classified documents relating to the assassination of New York Sen. Robert F.

National Archives and Records Administration The space race between the United States and the Soviet Union stepped up a gear on May 25, 1961, when American President John F. Kennedy announced that his ...

The Soviet Union really was a very racist society, so there would not have been a place for him as an actor in Soviet cinema.” Advertisement Mr. Patterson was born in the Russian capital on July ...

Between 1942 and 1945, South African charities such as the Medical Aid for Russia and the Friends of the Soviet Union, raised about £1m (approximately R1.2 billion today) to purchase and donate ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin suggested during an economic forum that the "whole of Ukraine" belongs to his country, even ...