The Great Purge was a period in the history of the Soviet Union where Stalin eliminated the majority of the "Old Bolsheviks" and the leadership of the Red Army. This was done through three show trials ...

On March 11, 1990, Lithuania became the first Soviet Republic to declare its independence from the Soviet Union. The U.S.S.R.

One of the many little-known facts about the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is that some 25% of its territory lies north of the Arctic Circle. The Soviet Arctic (some of which is south of the ...

This year, 2016, will mark the twentieth-fifth anniversary of the end of the Soviet Union from the political map of the world. A quarter of a century ago, the menace of Soviet-led communism, which had ...

Russia filmed its troops firing a D-74, an old artillery gun the Soviets exported to their allies. Its appearance is leading to suspicions that it was brought back in from a country such as North ...