The USSR, or Soviet Union, was one of the most influential and complex political entities of the 20th century. This video offers a detailed summary of the USSR’s history using engaging maps to ...

Ukraine is one of Europe's largest countries that most people know nothing about. Here's where it's located and how it gained independence from USSR.

"The Soviet Union has been split." The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 remade the world map and upended global politics. Fifteen countries were produced, and power shifted across Europe and Asia.

Potapov has carefully analyzed forest cover changes in eastern Europe and western Russia over the last 27 years. His results are striking: The transition from communism to a liberal market economy ...