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

December 30 marks a curious footnote in Soviet history that sounds almost absurd today: in 1932, Soviet authorities moved to ban or suppress publications and guidance

In 100 years of life, Dorothea Schade survived a Soviet gulag after World War II and immigrated to America for a better life.

Julia Ioffe has created a riveting red history of the Soviet Union through a colourful cast of remarkable women: some of them public figures attached to political power (politburo men), and others who were private citizens who played fundamental roles in the formation of the communist state,

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 fallen into ruin. The collection, titled Restricted ...

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 was not immediately released, but Gorbachev's office had ...

Early on the morning of 22 August 1991, an Aeroflot jet carrying Mikhail Gorbachev touched down at Moscow’s Vnukovo airport. The Soviet president, confused following three days of captivity at his Crimean dacha, appeared from the front exit ...

Bernie Sanders and I have little in common, given his passionate commitment to “democratic” socialism and my firm belief in individual freedom. But we do share one thing: We both visited Moscow in 1988, albeit for differing reasons. Sanders was on what ...

Soviet New Years, a ritual that survived the country’s dissolution, may be in danger of slipping away.