Roza Shanina was a 20-year-old girl, having worked in a kindergarten to make ends meet and support herself through school. When the Nazis invaded the Soviet Union, leading to her brothers' deaths, she ...

Julia Ioffe has created a riveting red history of the Soviet Union through a colourful cast of remarkable women: some of them ...

Deep in a Georgian forest stood a Soviet resort built exclusively for Communist elites. Designed for luxury, healing, and political favor, it hosted figures like Joseph Stalin himself. When the Soviet ...

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 Soviet-era spa town in Georgia is looking to reclaim its former glories, with a former sanatorium turned 4-star hotel one ...

On December 15, 1937, at the height of the Great Terror in Stalin's Soviet Union, the ethnic cleansing of thousands of Greeks ...

How did the Soviets manage to become the most powerful industrial power in the world and what do they owe their success to? Why were spacious, privately owned apartments split into numerous tiny rooms ...

From 2013 to 2015, Russian photographer Danila Tkachenko traveled thousands of miles to some of the most remote regions of the country to photograph once-proud structures of the Soviet Union that have ...

Izabella Tabarovsky’s ‘Be a Refusenik’ offers a productive mindset and practical ideas for Jewish students facing ...

Putin is interested in 'fundamentally changing borders in Europe and restoring old Soviet Union within borders of old Soviet ...

A museum scientist has paid homage to the renowned British naturalist and author Gerald Durrell, whose stories inspired him ...