At the end of the 1980s, protest movements across the Soviet Union sprung up, with people in the constituent republics calling for independence. Fed up with the broken, corrupt Soviet regime and ...

The Soviet Union Killed an Appalling Number of Whales. I Wanted to Know Why. The history of Soviet whaling belongs to anyone who looks out to sea and sees nothing.

Among the 2,891 items declassified by the U.S. government in Thursday's release are details about Oswald's links with the Soviet Union and what Moscow thought of him.

FIRST ON FOX: A survivor of Soviet Union-era communism is jumping into the race to replace late Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va.

This post is part of a 12-part series exploring how the U.S.-Russia relationship has shaped the world since the December 1991 end of the Soviet Union.

The Cold War saw the creation of some truly wild and destructive weapons systems. While the United States and the Soviet Union rushed to outdo each other in the nightmarish weapons department, one ...

He intended to reform the Soviet Union, not destroy it. But his aversion to violence and his belief in the Enlightenment were enough to finish a system held together by repression and lies.

Expats from Soviet Union honor and criticize the end of Mikhail Gorbachev’s era Gorbachev's death is prompting criticism, thanks and admiration from Russian-speaking Angelenos and prominent voices ...

In the Soviet view, the nomadic Chukchi reindeer herders chose to live in the past, and there could be no future until their way of life was dismantled.

On October 30, 1961, the Soviet Union tested the largest nuclear device ever created. The "Tsar Bomba," as it became known, was 10 times more powerful than all the munitions used during World War II.