Pavel Litvinov is a former Soviet dissident and human rights activist who played a key role in protesting state repression in ...

He catches small pox aged seven and is left with ... and by the late 1920s he becomes dictator of the Soviet Union. In the late 1920s Stalin instigates a series of five year plans to turn the ...

The Soviet Union detonated its first atomic bomb ... He observed the assembly work and reported back to Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. At 2 am on August 29, 1949 the assembled bomb was wheeled ...

MOSCOW, March 21 (Reuters) - A military court in St Petersburg jailed Soviet-era dissident and anti-war activist Alexander Skobov for 16 years on Friday after convicting him of "justifying ...

After the shock of Stalin’s death in 1953, a sense of hope enveloped the Soviet Union, bringing a desire for more civil liberties and an end to fear. Nikita Khrushchev emerged as the new ...

Leonov recalled the reaction in the Soviet Union: "There were lots of letters addressed to the government, all of which asked how it could have happened, how come Americans were ahead of us.

In Russia’s arctic wilderness, the remnants of one of the Soviet Union’s most tragic gulag ... forest These are some of the ruins of Josef Stalin’s abortive “Transpolar Mainline” railway.