The Republican Party has become, in form if not in content, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union of the late 1970s. I can already hear the howls about invidious comparisons.

A photo of a Soviet Union Communist Party credential has been altered to portray Vice President Kamala Harris as a member. The purported ID can be created using a template available on a website ...

In a 2013 speech delivered to Party cadres months after coming to power, Xi asked why the Soviet Union and its ruling Communist Party collapsed. The answer, to Xi, was clear: ...

On this day in 1984, the Soviet Communist Party’s Central Committee, meeting at the Kremlin, named Konstantin Chernenko to succeed Yuri Andropov as its general secretary.

BEIJING — The 70th anniversary of the People’s Republic of China on Tuesday will mark a triumphal moment for the nation’s ruling Communist Party, as it surpasses the defunct Soviet Union’s ...

It can beat communist China, too ... the U.S. imposed severe restrictions on transfer of superior American technology to the backward Soviet Union and shut down third party workarounds.

Before Gorbachev, Soviet leaders never ventured into the streets, let alone pressed the flesh. But in 1985, the youngest-ever Secretary General of the Communist Party swept the old ways aside.

On Christmas Eve 1926, Roger Baldwin set sail for the Soviet Union, a man adrift. Nearly seven years before, he had helped found the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). He had been a hands-on ...

1949 - Soviet Union explodes its first atomic device; recognises the Communist government in China. 1950 - Soviet Union and China sign 30-year alliance treaty. Image caption, ...