Roy Medvedev, who has died aged 100, was a Soviet historian and dissident best-known for his pioneering account of the brutalities of Stalinism, Let History Judge (1969).

Much of its gear and training had Soviet fingerprints all over it. The generals watching from Moscow could reasonably believe ...

The museum had preserved the history of brutality inflicted by the Soviet Union on its people. It will now focus on Nazi war crimes.

A rare lymphoma diagnosis meant Giorgi Gagoshidze had to abandon a film project on the economic factors behind the USSR’s collapse – until he found new meaning in medical terminology ...

A U.S. diplomat’s warning about the Soviet Union’s grand strategy helped produce the strategy of containment that won the ...

Before the legendary T-26 and T-34, the Soviet Union experimented with a series of bizarre and often disastrous tanks that ...

On March 24, 1985, a Soviet sentry shot and killed U.S. Army Maj. Arthur D. "Nick" Nicholson. He was the last American killed ...

In the shadow of the Cold War’s race for military supremacy, this submarine of the Soviet Navy was right at the very center of a naval disaster that spoke volumes on the tremendous pressure and ...

Few would deny that the EU now also has a Soviet-style “nomenklatura”; a new class of “Eurocrats” which also enjoys legal ...