The Soviet Union was the world's first communist country and had a major influence on 20th-century history — and still has an influence today. When you purchase through links on our site ...

It was to be called the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. On Dec. 30, 1922, in a meeting at Moscow’s Bolshoi Theater of Communist delegates from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and the Caucasus ...

The last leader of the Soviet Union has died at the age of 91. Mikhail Gorbachev passed away in Moscow on Tuesday after a long illness. He took power in 1985 and introduced sweeping reforms ...

The last leader of the Soviet Union has died at the age of 91. Mikhail Gorbachev passed away in Moscow on August 30 after a long illness. He took power in 1985 and introduced sweeping reforms ...

One of the most influential politicians of the 20th century and the last leader of the Soviet Union, Gorbachev died Tuesday at 91. He had been suffering from acute diabetes and was undergoing ...

Every year, our family celebrates the day we arrived in America from the Soviet Union. July 20 is the date our family was free. It has always been important to me to acknowledge how differently my ...

Mr. Schmemann, a member of the editorial board, was The Times’s Moscow bureau chief in the 1980s and ’90s and is the author of “Echoes of a Native Land: Two Centuries of a Russian Village.” ...

It was one of the signature moments of the environmental movement, and one of the turning points of global history. A few long-haired men and women afloat in small rubber inflatables on an open ...

The year is 1983. It’s two years before Mikhail Gorbachev will come to power in the Soviet Union, Ronald Reagan is president of the U.S., the Cold War is again heating up, I am in high school ...

Historians and political scientists say the Soviet Union's morphing into a gerontocracy toward its end contributed to its demise, arguing that this serves as a cautionary tale for other countries ...

Images from The Red Atlas: How the Soviet Union Secretly Mapped America, by John Davies and Alexander J. Kent, published by the University of Chicago Press Beginning in the 1940s, the Soviets ...