During the Cold War, the CIA may have had as much success with books and magazines as with gun-running and spies.

Decades after defying the Soviet Union, Touro Faculty Rabbi Josef Mendelevich brings his story to a new audience with his ...

The Soviet Union was the world's first communist country and had a major influence on 20th-century history — and still has an influence today.

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 his ...

University of Alaska history professor Tyler Kirk in Syktyvkar, a city in the Russia’s Komi Republic, in 2016. Kirk was doing research as a Fulbright Scholar for his recently published book ...

Sechenov’s inventions have ushered in an age of technological prosperity for the Soviet Union. His laboratory, known as Facility 3826, is hard at work on a device that will link humans and robots.

The Shortest History of the Soviet Union by Sheila Fitzpatrick (Old Street Publishing,€10.30) This concise chronological account, by probably the foremost authority on Soviet history, maintains ...

A new book explores the legacy of the Soviet Union’s human spaceflight program Diane Tedeschi Yuri Gagarin’s status as an icon is evident in Russia’s many memorials for the pioneering ...

Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate created a portrait of the Soviets in WW2 that revealed "the grand sweep of history alongside the granular detail within", writes Nicholas Barrett.