The Battle of Kursk was a catastrophic defeat for Germany; the Wehrmacht suffered around 200,000 casualties and lost nearly 700 tanks and 1,000 aircraft. These losses were irreplaceable.

Putin is indeed trying to construct an empire — just not one that looks like the Soviet Union. As a former KGB officer, he understands all too well the inherent weaknesses and contradictions ...

His mission, he insisted, had been to reform the Soviet Union and its empire, not to destroy it.In fact, he argued that only a sweeping program of political and economic renewal could have offered ...

People carry portraits of relatives, Soviet Union and Russian flags, and military banners during the Immortal Regiment march on Red Square in central Moscow, Russia on May 9, 2022.

The anecdote, related in Serhii Plokhy’s extraordinarily well-timed new book The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union, underscores the degree of cognitive difficulty U.S. policymakers ...

Russia and China demonstrate that the struggle for empire has rarely had such nerve-racking stakes. The notion that we can play Russia off against China—as the Nixon administration played China ...

PARIS — Mikhail S. Gorbachev believed the Soviet Union could be preserved without recourse to violence. This proved to be a misunderstanding of the nature of the repressive empire he ruled.

President Ronald Reagan, speaking on this day in 1983 at the convention of the National Association of Evangelicals in Orlando, Florida, branded the Soviet Union an “evil empire,” further ...

When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, freeing its many republics to go their separate ways, the start of a new era in boxing was initiated. The Soviets and their Eastern European satellites had ...

Before the fall of the Iron Curtain and subsequent collapse of the Soviet Union during the 1989-1992 period, the nations of the Soviet Empire produced a fascinating range of cars, trucks, and ...