Mikhail Gorbachev was elected as the eighth general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union on March 11, 1985.

Generations of Chinese, including our columnist, turned to U.S. government-run outlets for an education in democracy, rights ...

Tamil Oli, a poet of the Dravidian movement, blended Tamil communist literature with anti-caste themes. Known for his May Day ...

Washington loves to make overreaching predictions about geopolitical events, and the Trump administration’s Russia peace ...

The bill’s text includes provisions that historic events - including the Holodomor, the Soviet-era Great Terror and more - be ...

Cuba just endured a nationwide blackout of the electric grid, lasting for days — the third such disaster in six months. The ...

There has been speculation that the Russian Navy’s "Admiral Nakhimov" could return to service later this year after a decades ...

When Mao Zedong and the Chinese Communist Party established the People’s Republic of China in 1949, they imposed a political ...

While climbing the ranks of the Soviet spy agency, he spent more than a decade working for British intelligence as one of its ...

The spectacle of incompetence and the attempts to smear a reporter are a misery; even worse is the encroaching threat of ...

The Kim family has ruled North Korea since 1948. Photos show Kim Jong Un's relatives, from his grandfather to his daughter, ...

Putin wins first presidential term; Saudi King Faisal assassinated; Italian fascists set up postwar trade union; Mussolini ...