The Soviet Union stretched across Asia and Europe and ruled more than 15 republics. Unfortunately, the era of centralized ...

A Soviet-era Central Asian pop music anthology shines a light on the region's ethnic diversity and music that transcends ...

In his review of “Crucibles of Power,” Prof. Gary Saul Morson speculates that “Hitler might well have won [his war against the Soviet Union] had he abolished collective farms and allowed ...

For several decades, a certain part of the Belarusian society has been actively celebrating the declaration of independence ...

For most of American history, it was George Washington ... person with both reprehensible and admirable traits. In the Soviet Union, however, most citizens found it difficult to think historically ...

Armenia and Azerbaijan were locked in conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh for nearly four decades after the Soviet Union they were both members of collapsed.

Armenia and Azerbaijan were locked in conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh for nearly four decades after the Soviet Union they were ...

Mikhail Gorbachev was elected as the eighth general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union on March 11, 1985.

As negotiators try to hammer out a partial ceasefire, NPR's Juana Summers talks to Harvard historian Serhii Plokhy about Russia's history of broken promises to Ukraine.