Mother Nature can be merciless, but human activity sometimes far outweighs her cruelty. Some of the world’s most tragic ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, has died at age 91, Russian state media reported and his personal press secretary Vladimir Polyakov confirmed to CBS News. His cause of death ...

The Soviet Union stretched across Asia and Europe and ruled more than 15 republics. Unfortunately, the era of centralized control came crashing down in 1991. This resulted in redrawn borders and ...

From a homemade antenna in a Turin bunker, two Italian brothers intercepted distress calls the Soviet Union never wanted the ...

Socialism is so dire and destructive that even when For All Mankind’s creators reimagine the Soviet Union as triumphant in ...

Google co-founder Sergey Brin is spending $57 million to defeat a proposed billionaire tax in California. “I fled socialism ...

The Soviet Union ceased to exist as a nation 30 years ago today. On December 25, 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev resigned his post as president of the Soviet Union. The Soviet hammer and sickle flag lowered ...

The events of August 1991 led to the Soviet Union, and President Gorbachev, being consigned to the history books. Malcolm Brinkworth explains what really happened during those final days. Just over ...

Back in the 1960s and 1970s, the country that was the “big growth story” was the Soviet Union. Its oil consumption grew by leaps and bounds. Its space program grew; its military program grew; and it ...

Leonid Bershidsky, formerly Bloomberg Opinion’s Europe columnist, is a member of the Bloomberg News Automation Team. He recently published Russian translations of George Orwell’s “1984” and Franz ...

The Soviet MiG-15 became one of the most feared fighter jets of the Cold War after shocking American pilots during the Korean ...