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

Explore how the Soviet command economy led to consumer goods shortages, impacting daily life. Understand government production priorities and market limitations.

Much of its gear and training had Soviet fingerprints all over it. The generals watching from Moscow could reasonably believe ...

A rare lymphoma diagnosis meant Giorgi Gagoshidze had to abandon a film project on the economic factors behind the USSR’s collapse – until he found new meaning in medical terminology ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, has died at age 91, Russian state media reported and his personal press secretary Vladimir Polyakov confirmed to CBS News. His cause of death ...

A professor at Hunter College has built one of the largest special collections of contraband Russian literature in the world.

Moscow — Russian President Vladimir Putin has claimed the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s left him struggling so badly financially that he was forced to work as a taxi driver to earn ...

Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, a pivotal figure during Russia's transition from communism to democracy, has died at the age of 91. Russian media reported his death Aug. 30, citing a hospital ...

The Soviet Union ceased to exist as a nation 30 years ago today. On December 25, 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev resigned his post as president of the Soviet Union. The Soviet hammer and sickle flag lowered ...

The events of August 1991 led to the Soviet Union, and President Gorbachev, being consigned to the history books. Malcolm Brinkworth explains what really happened during those final days. Just over ...