For the last three days, some 60,000 people had been holding out in front of the Russian White House, the parliamentary seat of the Russian Soviet Republic, which had become the bastion of ...

As the German retreat turned into a desperate flight, the Red Army’s relentless pressure and overwhelming firepower shattered what remained of Hitler’s Spring Awakening. Soviet tanks rolled through ...

Workers started dismantling monumental statues of soldiers, students, laborers and farmers in Lithuania's capital early on Monday, the last major Soviet artworks in a city now on the eastern ...

Sept 1 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin is to miss the funeral of the last Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, denying the man who failed to prevent the collapse of the Soviet empire the ...

At the funeral of Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader, the size of the crowds signaled the depth of the regret about the undoing of the freedoms that his tenure initiated.

One thing's for sure. The new exhaust valves are as Soviet as the contents of Leonid Brezhnev's ashtray around the same time these coins were minted.

Sino-Soviet War Sino-Russian Alliance Gorbachev’s Other Legacy: Normalizing Sino-Soviet Ties Mikhail Gorbachev’s death last month unleashed numerous commentaries and evaluations of his legacy.

The last Soviet leader delivered his “River of Time and the Imperative of Action” address in Fulton, where Winston Churchill also made history in 1946. James A. Finley Associated Press file photo ...

The last Soviet memorial in Budapest, honoring Red Army troops who died while seizing the city from the Nazis, was defaced over the weekend by vandals with a can of red spray paint. Police were ...