Just weeks earlier, hardline communists had attempted a coup to save the Soviet Union. Tanks rolled through Moscow. The world watched nervously. The nuclear superpower that had defined the Cold War ...

His score of books and hundreds of essays documented Stalinist executions, Communist repressions and censorship, and the transition to post-Soviet Russia.

For decades, Russian President Vladimir Putin railed against the world that the United States built after the Cold War. In ...

Here's the full list of men's hockey gold medal winners in Winter Olympics history since hockey was introduced in the Winter Games in 1924.

The Albanese Labor government’s legislation echoes that of 1950 and 1951, when the Menzies government sought to criminalise “communists.” ...

Congress’ failure to repeal outdated Cold War-era legislation is preventing an easy win for US-Central Asia relations.

On February 9, 1990, the Soviet Union signaled that it would allow Lithuania to pursue independence, a turning point in the ...

He is not the first to use this approach. American historian Steve Kotkin, in his ground-breaking 1995 book, Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as a Civilisation, depicted the Stalin years as a distinct ...

Four of the American figure skaters at the Milan Cortina Olympics trace their roots to parents who skated for the former Soviet Union.

The last nuclear weapons control treaty between the US and Russia has expired, raising fears of a new arms race. The Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, known as "New START" and signed in 2010, was one ...

Since the collapse of the old Soviet Union, Russia has cut a substantially diminished figure on the international stage.

The decision to arm Tajikistan’s border troops comes after months of cross-border attacks, but the CSTO’s track record gives ...