By the end of the year Gorbachev had resigned and the Soviet Union was no more. Dina Newman has spoken to the former President of Belorussia, Stanislav Shushkevich, and the former President of ...

In the 1930s, with the black clouds of war gathering over the skies of Europe once more, the Soviet Union under Josef Stalin pushed to demonstrate its technical prowess to the rest of the world, ...

Among other things, the Cold War was replete with examples of the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist ...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn in West Germany following his deportation from the Soviet Union in February 1974 Public domain via Wikimedia Commons By 1973, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was already “Russia ...

For many people who grew up in the Soviet Union or in the aftermath of its breakup, “The Irony of Fate” is to the new year holidays what “The Grinch” or “Home Alone” is to an American ...

The conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the highland region of Nagorno-Karabakh, a disputed territory that had been part of Azerbaijan before the Soviet Union break-up, but primarily ...

Each story uncovered the many layers that make up a building – from its initial ... divided between Poland and the Soviet Union, and finally declared its independence in 1991.

Show more December 1991 saw the end of 70 years of communist rule and the collapse of the Soviet Union. We hear from two ... nuclear expert who helped clean-up the former USSR.