Did the Soviets really build a tank with wings? Discover the true story of the Antonov A-40, a bizarre 1942 experiment that ...

A U.S. diplomat’s warning about the Soviet Union’s grand strategy helped produce the strategy of containment that won the ...

Any child of the 1980s and any sports fan can tell you the story of the “Miracle on Ice.” The ragtag band of rookie hockey players brought together by the United States for the 1980 Lake Placid Winter ...

Roy Medvedev, who has died aged 100, was a Soviet historian and dissident best-known for his pioneering account of the brutalities of Stalinism, Let History Judge (1969).

The museum had preserved the history of brutality inflicted by the Soviet Union on its people. It will now focus on Nazi war crimes.

He is not the first to use this approach. American historian Steve Kotkin, in his ground-breaking 1995 book, Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as a Civilisation, depicted the Stalin years as a distinct ...

The institution was one of the nation's last dedicated to documenting Soviet-era political repression and contained thousands ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A parade in Red Square, Moscow – a carefully choreographed display of Soviet power and unity that stood in contrast to the ...

The often misunderstood history of the Soviet dissident movement. In To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause, historian Benjamin Nathans sheds light on how the protest movement reinvented itself at key ...

A new book explores the legacy of the Soviet Union’s human spaceflight program Diane Tedeschi Yuri Gagarin’s status as an icon is evident in Russia’s many memorials for the pioneering cosmonaut, ...