During the Soviet era, the city was off-limits to foreign visitors, and much of what happened there remained classified.

The story of the Soviet leader’s time in power, his policies against Jews, and his relationship with Israel and Zionism ...

"You're next," said a Russian historian I interviewed in 1993 about the Soviet Union's collapse in late 1991. I was an ...

Russia has dispersed its vast collection of nuclear weapons - including ICBMs, submarines, and bombers - at military bases ...

Boris Kagarlitsky's The Long Retreat provides a necessary Marxist analysis of the Soviet tragedy, says Walden Bello ...

Hundreds of thousands of foreigners served in the Wehrmacht, most famously the Vlasov Army.

Russia said on Tuesday that its troops had made major new gains in its western region of Kursk, accelerating their push to ...

Legendary avant-garde composer Sofia Gubaidulina has died in Germany, where she spent more than 30 years of her life after ...

Blacklisted at home but finding acclaim abroad, she sought to bridge East and West, the sacred and the secular, in vivid, ...

Kyiv,” at the Ukrainian Museum, the revolutionary artist—a star of the avant-garde while the Soviet Union still permitted one ...