Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev waves through the open window of his limousine as he travels through downtown Washington, D.C., ...

On Oct. 16, 1978, the cardinal electors of the Roman Catholic Church elected Polish Cardinal Karol Wojtyla to sit on the Chair of St. Peter. Wojtyla took the name Pope John Paul II, having succeeded ...

THE reorganization of the Soviet political police, the OGPU, and its virtual transformation into a Commissariat for Internal Affairs which does not possess the right to pronounce summary death ...

Yaroslav Bilinsky, a widely recognized expert on Soviet and post-Soviet foreign policy and a distinguished member of the University of Delaware faculty for more than four decades, passed away on Sept.

GREAT FALLS (AP) — A former Soviet dissident fighting to stay in the United States has won political asylum, although his victory could be short-lived.

In January 2017, the CIA released a large number of newly-declassified documents about information collected on the Soviet Union. One of those documents included two pages of Russian jokes about the ...

"Viktor Koretsky (1909-1998) was a leading Soviet political poster artist and the acknowledged master of the Soviet photographic poster. With a long and prolific career that spanned the early Stalin ...