From their first time reading Orwell's "1984" to what the term "Orwellian" means, five authors share thoughts on censorship ...

After winning the Nobel Prize for her searing portraits of the Soviet world unraveling, Svetlana Alexievich worries about the ...

The Star City Closed Administrative Territorial Unit is barely an hour's drive northeast of the Kremlin, but for decades the town never appeared on any maps. Only after the Soviet Union fell apart was ...

Michael McFaul, former U.S. ambassador to the Russian Federation, smiles during a Maverick Speakers Series talk on Oct. 8 at ...

Few moments in history shocked the world like the fall of the Soviet Union. Once a superpower commanding half the globe, the USSR crumbled almost overnight. This video dives into the real reasons: a ...

When the Soviet Union fell, Russians lost their sense of past and future at once. Collective hallucinations flourished in the void. In the United States, our reality is now disintegrating in a similar ...

Here is question that few people have posed or even considered. What will be the fate of Russia after the war in Ukraine ends ...

Russia on Thursday said that there was no Cold War with the West because it was now a "fiery" conflict, and that the European ...

The further we got into September, the less it felt like fall. Eight of the first 10 days of the month were below average. Seven of the following 10 days were above average, according to the National ...

The Soviet-Afghan War (1979-1989) was a grueling counterinsurgency conflict that tested the limits of—and ultimately broke—Soviet military might. Amid the rugged Hindu Kush mountains, where ground ...