In a moment considered the start of the dissident movement in the Soviet Union, hundreds of protesters demonstrated in Pushkin Square, in Moscow, for the writers to be given an open trial. Vicky ...

The Cuban Missile Crisis was a major confrontation that brought the United States, and the Soviet Union close to war over the ...

From the world wars and Red Scare to the fight for Irish independence, here are some queer spies worth knowing.

After winning the Nobel Prize for her searing portraits of the Soviet world unraveling, Svetlana Alexievich worries about the ...

The Austrian official then blew the whistle once more, this time blowing for full-time, handing Chile a 1-0 win – later ...

In the 1930s, the Communist Party of the United States of America boasted nearly 100,000 members. Today, its few thousand ...

Was the end of the USSR inevitable — or the result of human decisions? This video dissects the economic decay, political paralysis, and personal choices that brought down one of history’s superpowers.

Dr Greg Mills met Professor Brown, the author most recently of The Human Factor: Gorbachev, Reagan, and Thatcher and the End of the Cold War at Oxford’s Grand Café.

FORGED in the ashes of World War Two, NATO was for decades the West’s last defence against the threat of nuclear annihilation from the Soviet Union. In the latest episode of Battle ...

Few moments in history shocked the world like the fall of the Soviet Union. Once a superpower commanding half the globe, the ...

From their first time reading Orwell's "1984" to what the term "Orwellian" means, five authors share thoughts on censorship ...

An apocalyptic vision of a million autonomous drones battling a million autonomous drones in the sky may sound like science ...