Behind the Iron Curtain, millions were imprisoned in Soviet gulags—forced labor camps that fueled Stalin’s rise and kept the ...

At the end of the Cold War, the sizeable Communist empire of the Soviet Union shattered into several independent states.

The Soviet Union was the world's first communist country ... the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Ottoman Empire. The Russians lost several battles against Germany, and German forces advanced ...

Gorbachev believed the Soviet Union could be preserved without recourse to violence. This proved to be a misunderstanding of the nature of the repressive empire he ruled. The Soviet imperium ...

National Archives and Records Administration The space race between the United States and the Soviet Union stepped up a gear ...

Before the fall of the Iron Curtain and subsequent collapse of the Soviet Union during the 1989-1992 period, the nations of the Soviet Empire produced a fascinating range of cars, trucks, and ...

Following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the post-Soviet states have sought to consolidate their independence, forging links with the West and other regional players while remaining mindful ...

Between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries it acquired an Eastern empire by conquest and colonization ... SHARE OF THE EASTERN REGIONS IN THE ESTIMATED TOTAL RESOURCES OF THE SOVIET UNION [ii] ...

When Gorbachev came into power in 1985, the Soviet Union was a formidable multinational empire. It had had — it had an enormous external empire in Eastern Europe. And by the time he left office ...

His encouragement of freedom at home quickened the disintegration of the multi-ethnic Soviet empire. From the Baltic ... revelations about the Soviet Union's dark past. In 1989, Eastern Europe ...

Russia is searching for real estate abroad that belonged to the Soviet Union and the Russian Empire. Russian President Vladimir Putin signed two decrees related to the order on January 18.