The head of Rossotrudnichestvo, Russia’s international assistance agency, has an ambitious plan for the Kremlin soft-power entity to fill development gaps created by the dismantling of the US Agency ...

In “Zbig,” Edward Luce tells the story of Zbigniew Brzezinski, a leading American strategist who had a notably eventful run as Jimmy Carter’s national security adviser.

The fall of the Soviet Union coincided with European liberal parties pulling back from the tenants of social democracy and China instituting free-market reforms into their society, but those ...

Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, center, surrounded by several leaders of USSR republics, speaks after signing an economic union agreement at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, on Oct. 18, 1991.

President Ronald Reagan and General Secretary of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 8, 1987, as they met for the signing of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty.

Leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 until its dissolution in 1991, Gorbachev tried to revive the moribund communist state by introducing polices of economic and political openness, known as ...

MOSCOW — Mikhail Gorbachev, who as the last leader of the Soviet Union waged a losing battle to salvage a crumbling empire but produced extraordinary reforms that led to the end of the Cold War ...

As the New York Times reported in 1989, a Soviet Union newspaper famously admitted that "20 million died in labor camps, forced collectivization, famine and executions," all under the dictator’s ...

1922 - Union treaty formally joins Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and the Transcaucasus - which were divided in 1936 into Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan - into the Soviet Union. 1922 - Germany ...

The early Soviet Space triumphs were managed and steered by Sergei Korolev, the man who built the R7 rocket that put Sputnik and Yuri Gagarin into orbit. But after Korolev's death in 1966, the ...