This video explores the life hacks that helped people cope with the hardships of Soviet Russia. See how residents of the USSR ...

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

Mikhail Gorbachev, the final leader of the Soviet Union, died at the age of 91 of "a long and grave illness," Russian news agencies reported Tuesday. Gorbachev was one of the major political figures ...

On a sweltering summer day, the researchers fan out in this city’s historical center, its walls lined with photos of local Jews who went through the Holocaust. The visiting scholars from St.

In 1991, the year the Soviet Union collapsed, the average Russian got married between the ages of 18 and 24, had one or two children, and was expected to live to the age of 69. About 1-in-8 Russians ...

American humorist Irene Kampen chronicled her eight-week sojourn to the Soviet Union in the summer of 1969 in her travelogue, Are You Carrying Any Gold or Living Relatives?, published by Doubleday in ...

In an authoritarian society, it’s free thinkers who are targeted by those in power. A book, a social media post, a private ...

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

Natan Sharansky and Connie Smukler on Glienicke Bridge in Berlin, the location where Sharansky famously crossed the border to gain his freedom in 1986 Courtesy of Connie Smukler When Israeli ...

In 36 bloody hours at Babi Yar, a deep ravine outside Kiev, Hitler’s special commandos 28 years ago last week coldly machine-gunned 34,000 Jews. The massacre has become a symbol not only of Nazi ...

Soviet statistics highlight the steady destruction of the civil rights of Jews, who are being progressively squeezed out of educational, economic, political and social life in the Soviet Union, the ...

Communist Party supporters laid flowers at Stalin’s grave in Moscow this month, marking the anniversary of his birth. Credit...Nanna Heitmann for The New York Times Supported by By The New York Times ...