It was the end for the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). Events unfolded in a deliberately discreet location: a hunting lodge for the Soviet elite tucked away in a forest in Belarus.

The two sides did not ever go to war. , but more to do with the problems faced by the USSR at home and abroad. In March 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev was elected as leader of the USSR. He was one of a ...

Film director Karen Shakhnazarov said he was in favor of America's current leadership as it weakened Moscow's "main adversary." ...

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a communist state from 1922 to 1991 and was a big rival of the US from WWII to the end of the '80s. But what was the Soviet Union really like?

Mixed Signals,” by Rebecca Charbonneau, explores an unusual period of Soviet-U.S. cooperation in the hunt for aliens.