Mark Smith’s impressive history surveys life in the Soviet Union, and its advances and failures from Khrushchev to Gorbachev ...

Europe never recovered from its postwar calamity. Trump is trying to make them do so.

This video examines what happened to the nations of the Eastern Bloc after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. We trace the transition from communist rule to democracy and market economies, ...

Amid high inflation, Russia is preparing to cap prices on staple food items, a move analysts say signals a shift toward a command economy that could trigger shortages, long queues, and public ...

As the Kremlin’s hard-line Communist ideologist, he initially embraced his boss’s modernizing reforms before turning against them as threats to the Soviet order. Yegor K. Ligachev. Kremlin watchers ...