From August 1937 to November 1938, during an NKVD operation to repress “anti-Soviet elements,” several prominent geneticists ...

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. His cause of death ...

Leonid Bershidsky, formerly Bloomberg Opinion’s Europe columnist, is a member of the Bloomberg News Automation Team. He recently published Russian translations of George Orwell’s “1984” and Franz ...

“Bridge of Spies: A True Story of the Cold War” (Broadway Books $24.99), by Giles Whittell: Two highly trained Cold War spies – one American, one Soviet – both failed in their most important missions.

As states go, the Soviet Union died young. It also never made it to where it really wanted to be: communism. The first socialist state – and empire, and then superpower – did not die innocent or, ...

The Alekseev SM-1 became the Soviet Union's first practical ekranoplan prototype, pioneering ground-effect vehicle technology ...

Back in the 1960s and 1970s, the country that was the “big growth story” was the Soviet Union. Its oil consumption grew by leaps and bounds. Its space program grew; its military program grew; and it ...

Apple TV's "Star City" takes place in a world where the space race never came to an end. A spinoff of "For All Mankind," the show is told from the Soviet perspective ...

ISTANBULISTANBUL — Russia’s coach believes the Soviets were right in 1972. The Americans say he’s got it all wrong. U.S. coach Mike Krzyzewski responded to David Blatt’s opinion that the Soviet ...

Mother Nature can be merciless, but human activity sometimes far outweighs her cruelty. Some of the world’s most tragic ...