For much of the 20th century, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), more commonly known as the Soviet Union, rivaled the United States in political, military, and economic strength.

The Soviet Union makes no attempt to intervene as its satellite regimes fall. December 1989 - Gorbachev and U.S. President George H.W. Bush, at a summit in Malta, hail the end of the Cold War.

The last leader of the Soviet Union has died at the age of 91. Mikhail Gorbachev passed away in Moscow on Tuesday after a long illness. He took power in 1985 and introduced sweeping reforms, but ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin presented rings engraved with New Year's greetings to the heads of former Soviet states at a summit in St. Petersburg.

The Soviet Union became a gerontocracy in its final years, contributing to its collapse. Historians say it's a cautionary tale for the US, whose leaders have been in power for decades.

The Soviet Union was the “big brother” and “China’s tomorrow” during the golden decade of the 1950s. However, it soon became China’s ideological archrival and security threat following ...

"You're next," said a Russian historian I interviewed in 1993 about the Soviet Union's collapse in late 1991. I was an American student in St. Petersburg, and he was referring to the United States.

National Archives and Records Administration The space race between the United States and the Soviet Union stepped up a gear on May 25, 1961, when American President John F. Kennedy announced that ...

While the United States and the Soviet Union rushed to outdo each other in the nightmarish weapons department, one weapon may take the cake: the Soviet RDS-220 or AN602, better known as the Tsar ...

All week long the martial music blared in Havana as Castro attempted to prove to the world that he was master of his own country and not merely a bedraggled and disregarded Kremlin puppet. Units of ...

The curfew for the Soviet sector had been set back from 11 ... Hermann Kastner, L.D.P. chairman, just returned from a visit to the Soviet Union, ... a Socialist, but is a puppet.