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

The Soviet Union built one of the most rapidly growing economies in history, but it also suffered one of the most dramatic collapses. From the 1920s to the 1980s, the USSR’s centrally planned economy ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Launched in 1972, the failed Venus probe has been stuck in Earth orbit ever since. Now it's hurtling back down to Earth.

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] ...

Vladimir Putin is going on a property hunt, ordering officials to find Russian assets that once belonged to its former empire or were owned by the Soviet Union. An order from the Russian president ...

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.