The Soviet Union’s ritual for the holiday survived the country’s dissolution—but 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 ...

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

Explore the fascinating tale of the Kola Superdeep Borehole, a monumental scientific endeavor by the Soviet Union that aimed to explore the Earth's crust, revealing unexpected discoveries and ...

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

A century on, Battleship Potemkin’s vision of oppression, courage and collective resistance still crackles with an energy ...

The USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) was formed after the Civil war of 1921 as the World's first Marxist-Communist state in the world. After that it would become one of the biggest and most ...

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 ...

** When you buy products through the links on our site, we may earn a commission that supports NRA's mission to protect, preserve and defend the Second Amendment. ** Partisan bands had a rag-tag ...

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.

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 ...