"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.

“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 ...

The Soviet Union was plunged into a power struggle among Stalin’s inner circle following the demise of the man who had led the USSR for nearly three decades. Khrushchev, emerging as a key player ...

Donald Trump’s telephone calls with Vladimir Putin hearken back to Franklin Roosevelt’s way of handling Joseph Stalin.

Moldova, which over the past 150 years has been variously part of the Russian empire, "greater Romania" and the Soviet Union, ...

Sofia Gubaidulina, 2021. She was part of a group of important composers in the Soviet Union, including Arvo Pärt, Alfred Schnittke and Edison Denisov, who found disfavor with the authorities but ...

For more than a decade, as Cold War tensions threatened to escalate into all-out war, Mr. Gordievsky, a senior KGB officer, ...

Soon after, U.S. President Ronald Reagan began moves to ease nuclear tensions with the Soviet Union. In 1984, Gordievsky briefed soon-to-be Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev ahead of his first visit to ...

In his 1986 book Made in Japan: Akio Morita and Sony, Sony founder Akio Morita tells an interesting story that occurred in the Soviet Union during the period of Perestroika. The country's ...

Expect the unexpected. The Cold War empire of the Soviet Union took just four years to tumble into oblivion. And the entire Bronze Age civilisation of the Eastern Mediterranean went from thriving ...

Mexican Foreign Minister Juan Ramon de la Fuente spoke with the U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau on ...

Soon after, US president Ronald Reagan began moves to ease nuclear tensions with the Soviet Union. Mr was called back to Moscow for consultations in 1985, and decided to go despite fearing — correctly ...