Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev issued a series of reforms and the Communist Party gave up its 70-year monopoly of political power in the Soviet Union.

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Evgeny Velikhov's many accomplishments in reducing the threat from nuclear weapons—during and after the Cold War—are ...

A spoof Russian news report that China's DeepSeek AI app was based on a secret Soviet code has found its way onto state TV, ...

Under Joseph Stalin, the Soviet Union had no lack of dissent or hopelessness ... converged as a challenge to not merely the Communist Party’s appropriation of truth but the deeper conventions ...

How much do their leaders believe in communism?” That was the first question Ronald Reagan asked Suzanne Massie, the recently ...

In Germany, as elsewhere, "democracy" means whatever the ruling class says it means. Often, that means banning dissident political parties.

As Trump surrounds himself with tech billionaires, NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with journalist David Hoffman about Russia's ...

During the Cold War, American and Soviet scientists embarked on an unprecedented quest to contact extraterrestrials. But ...

often referring to the fate of the Soviet Union. “The Soviet Communist Party distanced itself from the people and became a privileged bureaucratic group that only safeguarded its own interests ...

The editorial in the Communist Party mouthpiece came two days ... Both countries recognised the need to counterbalance the Soviet Union in the Cold War and saw potential for shared economic ...