Chronicling nearly four decades of activity, this feature examines the rise and fall of the KGB as the Soviet Union’s core intelligence force. The story begins with its brutal predecessors and ...

The essays in Polish Jews in the Soviet Union, 1939-1959 recount these tumultuous events with clarity, though several are as dry as dust and tend to be repetitive. About the Author Sheldon ...

What was it like living in the Soviet Union? That same history class probably told you that it was awful, but it's a lot more complicated than that. Ranker - Video.

America’s current retreat from world power recalls that of the Soviet Union after 1988. Is the U.S. poised to collapse like the Soviet Union did?

Discover the Story Behind a Legendary Exposé of the Brutality of the Soviet Union Published on this day in 1973, “The Gulag Archipelago” drew on Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s ...

Reagan often talked tough about the Soviet Union and forthrightly called out its egregious human rights abuses. In 1982, he prophesied that “the march of freedom and democracy” would “leave ...

By April 1983, Samantha Smith, now 10, was worried as Cold War tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union raised the threat of nuclear confrontation.

Each year, Replogle Globes makes hundreds of thousands of models of planet Earth, some are less than $10, others cost as much as $13,950. “We make globes,” Joe Wright, the company’s CEO said ...

In my home office is a globe. Two globes, actually — it’s a big office — but the one I’m looking at is an old 16-inch library globe, quite regal with its three carved wooden lion’s feet.

Little was known about the Soviet Union outside the USSR—only falsified statistics and other lies. The author vividly describes the horror of the initial situation and the chaos that followed the ...

Fitzpatrick, a doyenne of Soviet historians, offers the lay reader a concise, chronological account of the Soviet Union premised on the notion that accidents, rather than inevitabilities, drive human ...