In a series of polls conducted at various points over the past 25 years, the Levada Center has asked Russians about their nostalgia for the Soviet state and the reasons for its breakup. In the most ...

Could Mikhail Gorbachev, as Soviet premier during the late 1980s, have resuscitated the Soviet economy and prevented his country’s dissolution? That’s the question Yale’s Chris Miller deftly answers ...

Cold War footage appears to show an ordinary Soviet test flight, until the second aircraft comes into view. Flying beside a ...

A discussion on Russian state television saw arguments praising the achievements of the Soviet Union and the value of dying in the war in Ukraine, with panelists trying to put Vladimir Putin's ...

When the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was created in 1917, many academic economists, including those in the United States, believed or claimed to believe that socialism—which entails ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MOSCOW (AP) — People strolling across Moscow ...

The Soviet Union disappeared from the map more than two decades ago. But online an 'e-vil empire' is thriving. Security experts say the .su Internet suffix assigned to the USSR in 1990 has turned into ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

At five-minutes-before-midnight in Leningrad, USSR, I stepped onto the Red Arrow sleeper train. In eight hours I’d arrive in Moscow, the scene of an unfolding coup d’état. Stepping onto the train that ...