For decades, the threat of nuclear conflict between the US and the Soviet Union hung over humanity. Now, only one nuclear ...

He suggested that maps of Russia should show the borders of the Soviet Union, the Russian empire that preceded it, as well as the countries that are under Moscow's sphere of influence. "Then it ...

With the centennial of the former Soviet Union coming up Oct. 17, Masha Chlenova, curator of the exhibit “ Russian Revolution: A Contested Legacy,” uses still images of McKay from that day in ...

The embalmed body of Vladimir Lenin, the founder of the Soviet Union, is seen on display in his mausoleum on Moscow's Red Square, Russia, on Wednesday, April 16, 1997.