The death of Vadim Medvedev marks the quiet end of an era when Communist apparatchiks ruled the Soviet Union from behind ...

Later, at scientific conferences, Sagdeev heard physicists criticize the uncertainty principle of quantum mechanics on the ...

MICHAEL KIMMAGE is Professor of History at the Catholic University of America. He is the author of Collisions: The Origins of ...

Russian strategic cooperation, particularly within the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), plays a crucial role in regional stability and development. Both nations view the SCO as a platform for ...

A Stalinist who denounced Leon Trotsky as an “agent of the Gestapo” was shielded from criticism by SWP speakers.

By the second half of 1989, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev’s relaxation of controls under the names of glasnost (openness) and perestroika (restructuring) had caused the Soviet Union to founder.

After taking power in 2012, Xi commissioned a documentary about the end of the Soviet Union that portrayed Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader, as a villain who abandoned the party.

The world’s population is expected to start shrinking this century. Political demographer Jennifer Sciubba says that’s no ...

That’s the case when gauging China’s evolving view of President Donald Trump’s second term. Beijing sees Trump’s disruptive ...

Trump is having a hard time quitting Putin despite his uncharacteristically candid assessment of him during a July 8 Cabinet ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, the president of the Soviet Union at the time, introduced the policy of "Glasnost" which eased restrictions on freedom of speech. As a result, songs emphasizing Estonian identity ...

The conventional wisdom is that President Vladimir Putin’s war has showered Russians with newfound wealth. Workers, we are ...