The Soviet Union built one of the most rapidly growing economies in history, but it also suffered one of the most dramatic ...

However, its conceptual innovations, engineering challenges, and historical context offer a fascinating glimpse into the ...

Life in the Soviet Union was filled with strange contradictions ration cards and black market jeans, communal apartments, and ...

As we celebrate the successful flight of Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla to the International Space Station and back, I ...

Their GreenGold Tea is one of several new companies that brought tea fields in and around Ozurgeti, Guria’s regional capital, ...

Powers is the son of Francis Gary Powers Sr., the CIA U-2 pilot whose capture by the Soviet Union in 1960 became one of the ...

Americans don't like talking about it, but the Soviet Union produced a golden age of science If not for the scientists working for the Russia-led Soviet Union, America would be much worse off today ...

From 1925, when the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic was declared a part of the Soviet Union, one photographer was able to capture the “radical social surgery” enacted by the Bolsheviks that forever ...

The Soviet Union may have died or, as many Russians believe, been killed, but as for its afterlife—too early to say. Submit a correction Send a letter to the editor ...

The Soviet Union’s first McDonald’s, located across Pushkin Square on Gorky Street, opened on Jan. 31, 1990 — a yellow-arched symbol of Gorbachev’s perestroika economic reforms.

As the Soviet Union’s final leader, Mikhail Gorbachev dreamed of a “common European home,” but three decades later that tantalizing idea remains out of reach. By Roger Cohen PARIS ...