Communism defeated fascism in its initial phase in Europe. Without Stalin and the heroic efforts of the Soviet Union during the Great Patriotic War, Hitler may have prevailed. Without communism the ...

Former political prisoners explain the different ways the dissident movement within the Soviet bloc (1922–1991) took shape.

Charlie English delves into the CIA's attempts to combat communism via literature including '1984' in a book that reminds, in ...

It was supposed to be a Soviet triumph. Instead, it became the most public crash in the history of Cold War aviation. A ...

Putin’s war in Ukraine is not just about territory—it’s a calculated move rooted in history to reclaim Russia's global ...

Some of the Stalin nostalgia may be attributable to the coincidence (okay, not really a coincidence) that Stalin led the ...

Nearly a quarter of the one million Kazakhs conscripted into the Red Army during the 'Great Patriotic War,' the Russian term for World War II, went missing. Eighty years later, their descendants ...

But the Soviet Union had collapsed a few months earlier so many felt the Cold War was over and there was less to worry about from the new Russia. At one point in the 1990s, ...

Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, D-N.Y., speaks in Washington on March 16, 1968, as he announces he will run for president. WASHINGTON — The CIA released nearly 1,500 pages of previously classified ...

Robert F. Kennedy met with the CIA after a trip to the Soviet Union, newly declassified files show The CIA has released 1,500 pages of previously classified documents relating to the assassination ...

Kennedy met with the CIA following a 1955 tour of the Soviet Union, relaying his observations to the spy agency as a voluntary informant, the documents show.