Soviet Union launches Soyuz 17; Nkrumah independence campaign in Gold Coast; Polish nationalist campaign on Danzig.

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Ukraine must not accept a "Finlandization" deal struck following a previous invasion by Moscow 85 years ago, experts tell Newsweek.

Karl Schlögel’s dizzyingly excellent essays in The Soviet Century cover everything from the freezing Gulag to communist ...

Early in his presidency, in May 1977, then-President Jimmy Carter gave a commencement speech at the University of Notre Dame ...

On Dec. 30, 1922, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, or USSR, officially came into existence, as leaders gathered in ...

Published on this day in 1973, "The Gulag Archipelago" drew on Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's experiences as a ...

“He stole my life,” Gene Mills said. “That was my life. He took it away from me.” ...

The Irony of Fate” is a turn-of-the-year TV tradition that endures even in households that are now wary of Russian culture.