What went awry? Putin is the main culprit for Russia’s return to authoritarianism, aggression and hostility to the West. But American arrogance and presumptions cannot be dismissed.

Russia’s judicial system now hands down guilty verdicts at a rate 20 times higher than Stalin’s Soviet Union, and 30 times higher than military tribunals during World War II, according to Boris Zolotukhin,

Russia used to rely on Ukrainian expertise for its missile programs, but its actions in 2014 and beyond ended that cooperation.

Poland's foreign minister said Putin used to criticize the Soviet approach that helped bankrupt it, but now he's repeating the mistake.

Retired general Ben Hodges drew a comparison between Russia and the Soviet Union, warning we should be prepared for the eventual collapse of Vladimir Putin's country

A controversial memoir of a Finnish woman who migrated to Stalin’s Soviet Russia in the 1930s and escaped in 1941. Ninety years later, her granddaughter has translated the diary into English.

Putin is undismayed and vows to press on with his plan to rebuild the Soviet Union. Another reason Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022 was because Ukraine was negotiating with NATO to become a member. Ukraine was also about to become a member of the EU,

It already appears evident that the days of Russia serving as its leading arms supplier have come to an ignominious end.

Yes, there were Soviet troops in North Vietnam, and in significantly larger numbers than their Korean War predecessors. Although the Cold War never turned into a “hot war,” i.e., full-blown World War III between the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact on the side and the United States and its NATO allies on the other,

Russia is clearly committed to the Lada-class. But it is a submarine that does not—and will never—live up to the expectations.

Figures given by US president on Soviet losses during World War II do not correspond to official data from Russian historians, specialists from across continent, says Kremlin - Anadolu Ajansı

In To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause, historian Benjamin Nathans sheds light on how the protest movement reinvented itself at key junctures and eventually to great effect.