USSR

It’s amazing what a stretch of water can do. The Baltic Sea separates Estonia from Sweden and Finland. The struggles of the last couple of generations couldn’t be more different ...

Commentary The assassination of Sergei Kirov on Dec. 1, 1934—despite the fact that he was considered a leading ...

Commentary The old saying “to know all is to forgive all” means if taken literally, that all the ...

We sat down with Zygmunt Staszewski, a former Polish Solidarity leader, and discussed his first-hand experience of joining Solidarity, ...

Commentary A Jewish Ukrainian family had four brothers. Three brothers were murdered by the Nazis. Only one survived. ...

For almost half a century, Europe was forcibly divided into east and west by the Iron Curtain, a ...

Commentary I’m old enough, just barely, to remember watching Paul Henderson score his winning goal against the Soviets ...

Commentary The Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 was more than a collision of the superpowers at the ...

Commentary A great American has left this earthly life. A cynic might say that the laudatory phrase “great ...

Commentary The Cold War came to an end more than a quarter-century ago. When the winds of change ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday criticized Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin, accusing him of placing a "time bomb" ...

LONDON—Newly released official papers show that former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's government considered rebuilding Britain's chemical weapons arsenal ...

Leonid Kravchuk, first president of post-Soviet Ukraine, has praised the editorial series "Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party."

Juozas Luksa was a warrior when necessary, but first and foremost, he was a journalist documenting Soviet atrocities.

The search for a foreign underwater craft in waters off Stockholm has brought back memories of Sweden's submarine ...

Jiang Zemin's days are numbered. It is only a question of when, not if, the former head of ...

Jiang Zemin's days are numbered. It is only a question of when, not if, the former head of ...

General George Patton, a pivotal figure of World War II, is considered one of America’s brightest generals. But ...

MOSCOW—The Soviet Union disappeared from the map more than two decades ago. But online an 'e-vil empire' is ...

KYIV, Ukraine—Surrounded by residential buildings and trade centers, an abandoned factory in Ukraine’s capital city contains 200 tons ...

Among the victims of Saturday's plane crash that killed the Polish president, were many prominent members of the ...