From beach days to a polar bear's lunchtime, here are 25 photos of what life looked like in 1970s Soviet Union.

America’s current retreat from world power recalls that of the Soviet Union after 1988. Is the U.S. poised to collapse like ...

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

The U.S. coaches come out to join the team on the ice. (Focus on Sport/Getty Images) A view of the ice moments after the U.S. victory over the Soviet Union was sealed. (John G. Zimmerman/Sports ...

The Soviet Union's MiG-25 was a big, scary, high-speed fighter. That is, until Western governments got their hands on it, thanks to Soviet Flight Lieutenant Viktor Ivanovich Belenko. This post is ...

“I couldn’t come to the Soviet Union, of course. I was an enemy as (far as they were) concerned,” he says in an interview with CNN Sport. “I remember that day very well because I was in ...

Saturday marks the 45th anniversary of the “Miracle on Ice,” when the U.S. Hockey Team defeated the Soviet Union 4-3 in Lake Placid, N.Y., during the 1980 Winter Olympic Games, en route to ...