Explore the purpose and reality of Stalin’s Gulag, the Soviet Union’s vast system of forced labor camps. In this video, I share personal family stories that reveal what life was like for prisoners and ...

For most of us in the West, until the fall of the Berlin Wall “Russia” was synonymous with the Soviet Union. Among the 15 ...

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization began in 1949 as a bulwark against the Soviet Union, but has expanded in size in the decades since ...

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, and Soviet leader Josef Stalin at the Yalta Conference, Feb. 9, 1945. Credit: UK National Archives Eight decadess ago, on ...

Between 1942 and 1945, nearly 8,000 American warplanes traveled through Alaska on their way to the Soviet Union as part of a critical supply line that helped defeat Nazi Germany on the Eastern Front.