For years he lived a double life, secretly making anti-Communist paintings. He found fame in the late 1980s, once his work ...

From the Tsarist Okhrana to the Cheka, NKVD, and KGB, generations of secret police enforced obedience through surveillance, ...

In the mid-1980s, the Federal Bureau of Investigation had three high-placed moles inside the KGB, the Soviet Union’s state security and intelligence apparatus. When they were suddenly arrested and ...

American humorist Irene Kampen chronicled her eight-week sojourn to the Soviet Union in the summer of 1969 in her travelogue, Are You Carrying Any Gold or Living Relatives?, published by Doubleday in ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, the final leader of the Soviet Union, died at the age of 91 of "a long and grave illness," Russian news agencies reported Tuesday. Gorbachev was one of the major political figures ...

Bill Aron, “Gates to Leningrad Synagogue” (1981) (image courtesy the artist) LOS ANGELES — In 1981, photographer Bill Aron flew to the Soviet Union to document the lives of Jews living under ...

We remember the lives of Alicia Ugartechea and Usha Subrahmanyam, two mothers who were lost to COVID-19 this year. And, we look back at life in Russia these past three decades since the collapse of ...

Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, who embarked on a path of radical reform that brought about the end of the Cold War, reversed the direction of the nuclear arms race and ...

Sheila Fitzpatrick does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

Auburn football coach Alex Golesh was born in Moscow, and his family fled the Soviet Union in 1991. Here's what he said about ...

When the Berlin Wall fell a third of a century ago, the West, led by the United States, thought it had secured a great political victory. And so it had, in a way. But political victories are seldom ...