From industrial juggernaut to economic disaster, the Soviet Union’s economy tells the dramatic story of a global superpower ...

However, its conceptual innovations, engineering challenges, and historical context offer a fascinating glimpse into the ...

Americans don't like talking about it, but the Soviet Union produced a golden age of science If not for the scientists working for the Russia-led Soviet Union, America would be much worse off today ...

As we celebrate the successful flight of Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla to the International Space Station and back, I ...

By Felix Light ANASEULI, Georgia (Reuters) -When Lika Megreladze was a child, life in her native western Georgian region of ...

Powers is the son of Francis Gary Powers Sr., the CIA U-2 pilot whose capture by the Soviet Union in 1960 became one of the ...

The Soviet Union may have died or, as many Russians believe, been killed, but as for its afterlife—too early to say. Submit a correction Send a letter to the editor ...

But the Soviet Union, Trotsky insisted, was not a fixed historical entity. In the final analysis, the cause of its degeneration and ultimate collapse lay in the economy.

The Soviet Union’s first McDonald’s, located across Pushkin Square on Gorky Street, opened on Jan. 31, 1990 — a yellow-arched symbol of Gorbachev’s perestroika economic reforms.

As the Soviet Union’s final leader, Mikhail Gorbachev dreamed of a “common European home,” but three decades later that tantalizing idea remains out of reach. By Roger Cohen PARIS ...