The event, a salute to FJC’s network of schools, synagogues, and youth programs across the former Soviet space, featured ...

According to various Russian state media accounts, former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has died at the age of 91 after a long illness. Gorbachev played a pivotal role in ending the Cold War, and ...

A many-sided account of Jewish life in Soviet Russia under wartime conditions was given here today to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency by a Soviet Jew who reached Britain from Moscow on an important ...

It is now some three and a half decades since the Soviet Union collapsed. But its past continues to haunt the Left, and its ...

Radio astronomy opened up the universe for scientists. They could map new elements across galaxies and also search for ...

It isn't every day that one of the creators of a political thriller gets to ask its real-life protagonist to evaluate the novel's plot. But that happened when the late Billy Wireman, president of ...

Reason's December special issue marks the 30th anniversary of the collapse of the Soviet Union. This story is part of our exploration of the global legacy of that evil empire, and our effort to be ...

A BRITISH newspaper correspondent, recently returned from eighteen months in Moscow, describes the Soviet Union as a tangle of paradoxes. “Whatever one’s prejudices about the Soviet regime and the ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, the final leader of the Soviet Union, died at the age of 91 of "a long and grave illness," Russian news agencies reported Tuesday. Gorbachev was one of the major political figures ...

A s Olga Grushin notes at the end of "The Line," her second novel is rooted in historical fact: "In 1962, the celebrated Russian composer Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky accepted a Soviet invitation to ...

From Tsarist Russia to Stalin and the Cold War, the Soviet secret police evolved through endless name changes—but their mission never wavered: repress, control, and terrify. Discover how these ...