We had him in Detroit before the Russians knew he was gone." On July 23, 1990, Sergei Fedorov, 5 months shy of his 21st ...

On January 8, 1973, the Soviet Union launched the Luna 21 mission to land a rover on the moon. This was the second time that ...

One of the most notorious spies in U.S. history, Aldrich Ames, died on Tuesday at the age of 84. As a CIA officer, Ames sold ...

It was years in the making, but when it actually came, the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 occurred suddenly. In the ...

December 30 marks a curious footnote in Soviet history that sounds almost absurd today: in 1932, Soviet authorities moved to ...

Discover Harry Dexter White's role in shaping the postwar global economy through the Bretton Woods Agreement and the ...

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 ...

Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, a pivotal figure during Russia’s transition from communism to democracy, has died at the age of 91. Russian media reported his death Aug. 30, citing a hospital ...

From 2013 to 2015, Russian photographer Danila Tkachenko traveled thousands of miles to some of the most remote regions of the country to photograph once-proud structures of the Soviet Union that have ...

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 ...

How did the Soviets manage to become the most powerful industrial power in the world and what do they owe their success to? Why were spacious, privately owned apartments split into numerous tiny rooms ...

Auburn football coach Alex Golesh was born in Moscow, and his family fled the Soviet Union in 1991. Here's what he said about ...