A leaked document reveals that Russia is worried that the West is plotting with their former Soviet Republics in order to ...

Improved East-West trade relations, especially in United States-Soviet commerce, would be a large step in this direction. Improved trade with the Soviets, if it is possible, would have permanent ...

America might adopt a mercantilist trade policy and a relatively isolationist foreign policy. This approach goes against the ...

On Feb. 10, 1962, on the Glienicke Bridge connecting West Berlin and East Germany, the Soviet Union exchanged captured ...

Kazakhstan, the region’s largest economy, has condemned the invasion, refused to recognise Russia’s territorial gains and made an effort to demonstrate compliance with western sanctions. Neighbouring ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin is copying Soviet-era approaches that bankrupted the USSR and that he used to criticize, according to Poland's foreign minister. Speaking on a panel at the World ...

The often misunderstood history of the Soviet dissident movement. In To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause, historian Benjamin Nathans sheds light on how the protest movement reinvented itself at ...

Wollenberg/UPI In 1990, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev issued ... In 1995, the mastermind in the 1993 bombing of New York's World Trade Center, Ramzi Ahmed Yousef, was arrested in Pakistan.

Yes, there were Soviet troops in North Vietnam, and in significantly larger numbers than their Korean War predecessors. Although the Cold War never turned into a “hot war,” i.e., full-blown ...