The best thing about the Soviet Union – arguably the only good thing – was the manner of its going. Though it lost its ...

In 1950, a 22-year-old émigré with an unpronounceable name living in a frigid Canadian city wrote a master’s thesis that predicted the fall of the Soviet Union — and helped to set in motion the ...

Twenty-five years ago today the last Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, resigned. And the next day, with the stroke of a pen, the USSR was dissolved. As the 15 constituent republics went their separate ...

A defunct spacecraft from the former Soviet Union that has been stuck in space for more than half a century is, at last, about to come home. Kosmos-482 was launched on a voyage to Venus in March 1972 ...

"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.

Slovakia is one of two nations born out of the former Czechoslovakia, a multiethnic nation established at the end of World War I. By The New York Times Slovakia, which was left reeling on Wednesday ...

Mother Russia (Irene Dennis) is baffled by capitalism and the choices it bring with it after the fall of the Soviet Union in Penobscot Theatre Company's production of "Mother Russia" at the Bangor ...