At the height of World War II, Klaus Fuchs, a brilliant British physicist working on the Manhattan Project, secretly passed America’s most guarded nuclear secrets to Joseph Stalin’s Soviet Union.

The Great Purge was a period in the history of the Soviet Union where Stalin eliminated the majority of the "Old Bolsheviks" ...

Russians marking an annual day of remembrance for victims of Joseph Stalin's repression warned Thursday that history could "repeat itself" and criticised attempts to rehabilitate the Soviet leader's ...

“The intellectuals of the Soviet Union have given birth to a literature of freedom that ranks among the noblest and most heroic since the American Revolution,” wrote Sen. Thomas Dodd of Connecticut, a ...

December 30 marks a curious footnote in Soviet history that sounds almost absurd today: in 1932, Soviet authorities moved to ...

Donald Trump’s ruthless takeover of the military is reminiscent of Joseph Stalin and could take decades to fix, a former ...

ORYOL, Russia (Reuters) - The first Jehovah's Witness detained for extremism in Russia has likened the authorities' behaviour to that of Josef Stalin's Soviet Union ahead of a verdict in his trial.

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