Soviet New Years, a ritual that survived the country’s dissolution, may be in danger of slipping away.

December 30 marks a curious footnote in Soviet history that sounds almost absurd today: in 1932, Soviet authorities moved to ...

A century on, Battleship Potemkin’s vision of oppression, courage and collective resistance still crackles with an energy that reminds us why cinema matters.

The Museum of Strategic Missile Forces tells the story of how Ukraine dismantled its nuclear weapons arsenal after ...

Julia Ioffe has created a riveting red history of the Soviet Union through a colourful cast of remarkable women: some of them ...

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A Soviet machine gun team during World War II. After losing as many as 100,000 troops killed and wounded in Ukraine and forcibly drafting 300,000 unwilling men to replace them, the Russian army ...

Luke Harding is a foreign correspondent at the Guardian. Excerpted from the book Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money, and How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win published by Vintage Books, an imprint ...

Countless words will be dedicated in the following days to Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet leader who died Aug. 30 at the age of 91. But throughout his obituaries, two specific words will likely be ...

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The Soviet economy was the second largest in the world, but long queues and empty store shelves are the main things many people remember about it. Goods were cheap but there were constant shortages.

Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who played a central role in ending the Cold War, died Tuesday at the age of 91. Russian media reported his death, citing the hospital that was treating him as ...