The death of Vadim Medvedev marks the quiet end of an era when Communist apparatchiks ruled the Soviet Union from behind closed doors. A look back at the Politburo – an opaque, feared body that ran an ...

He startled critics, readers and the book industry in 1981 with a novel set in the Soviet Union that had a flawed detective ...

In “Zbig,” Edward Luce tells the story of Zbigniew Brzezinski, a leading American strategist who had a notably eventful run ...

A statue of Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin at the All-Russia Exhibition Center in Moscow, Russia. Mikhail Metzel / AP Oct. 13, 2009, 4:21 PM EDT / Source : The Associated Press ...

Steve Jobs journeyed to Moscow, aiming to introduce Macintosh computers to the Soviet Union amidst internal Apple turmoil.

Soviet Union. Add Topic. All things Soviet slipping away in Moscow. Doug Stanglin. USA TODAY. The Russian bear has been replaced by more modern%2C less regimented symbols; ...

The Moscow Metro recently celebrated its 80th birthday. — -- This past weekend marked the 80th anniversary of the founding of the Moscow subway. And it’s not your average metro system. In ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) -A monument to Soviet dictator Josef Stalin erected in Moscow's metro is stirring debate, with some Russians welcoming it as a historical tribute, but others saying it's a mistake ...

The Soviet Union under Stalin came to measure economic and agricultural output in five-year plans, and in 1938, as part of the third five-year plan, laid the groundwork for a pair of aircraft ...