80th anniversary of the victory that crushed Nazism, liberated Europe, and laid the foundations of the African national freedom movement ...

More than 25 million Soviets died during World War II. Many Russian families still commemorate the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany on May 9. But today's state also uses the anniversary to ...

Here's the standard high school history class summary of the Soviet Union: The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a communist state from 1922 to 1991 and was a big rival of the US from ...

Slowed down so you can understand what students are saying in English.. Soviet-era educational film for teaching English to students. The transcript captures a chaotic classroom discussion where ...

A bizarre string of matchups occurred in the 1987 McDonald’s Open, an exhibition tournament that saw the Milwaukee Bucks face up against the former Soviet Union.

Cooper Union announced it is postponing an exhibition on Soviet design school Vkhutemas, citing Russia's ongoing aggression in Ukraine.

"This is our land, our territory of strategic interests," Henry Sardaryan, dean at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations, said on state TV.

But the Soviet Union could also put 200 divisions and 50,000 tanks into the field in 1989, before the post-Soviet cuts decimated the armed forces.

There will probably never be another college basketball exhibition game like the one at the Milwaukee Arena in the wee hours of Nov. 2, 1975.

Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, has died at age 91, Russian state media reported and his personal press secretary Vladimir Polyakov confirmed to CBS News.