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, we may ...

‘Visiting a sanatorium is like stepping back in time,’ writes Maryam Omidi in Holidays in Soviet Sanatoriums, in which she takes the reader on a health-conscious journey into a world of peeling ...

It was to be called the Union of Soviet Socialist ... still known across the post-Soviet region as the Great Patriotic War. Red Army soldiers hoisted the Soviet flag from a balcony of the Hotel ...