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

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

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

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 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, ...

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 usual perception of Soviet Jewish literature after World War II is that there was none. The conversation around the decades after the Holocaust usually focuses on the refuseniks and large waves of ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - On this day in history, in 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the world’s first artificial satellite, officially making the Space Age. The 184-pound sphere circled the ...

TORONTO -- Audiences understand early on that "Red Army" is more than just a film about hockey. The documentary features plenty of footage of the Soviet Union's renowned national team scoring ...