The Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, which had been independent between the two world wars, were annexed by the Kremlin in June of 1940, during the dramatic days when Paris fell to the ...

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a communist state from 1922 to 1991 and was a big rival of the US from WWII to the end of the '80s. But what was the Soviet Union really like?

They did it without asking the other republics, and against the wishes of the USSR's overall President Mikhail Gorbachev. By the end of the year Gorbachev had resigned and the Soviet Union was no ...

Jews migrating into the Soviet Union streamed into cities in the center of the country and to Central Asian republics such as Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. Still others were shuttled into collective ...

He explained that the Soviet authorities’ aim was "to preserve the union and to create a real federation with real sovereignty for the republics, which delegate part of their powers to the center." ...

(CNN) --The following are key events in the Republic of Georgia following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991: 1991-- Georgia declares its independence from the Soviet Union. Former dissident ...

Crimea, the focus of fresh tensions between US President Donald Trump and his Ukranian counterpart VolodymyrZelensky, was illegally annexed by Russia in 2014 in the first act of the countries' ongoing ...

TASS/. Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko believes that the Union State of Belarus and Russia may attract other countries. "I'm sure that other republics of the former Soviet Union will ...

TBILISI, Georgia (CNN) -- The leaders of a former Eastern Bloc nation and four former Soviet republics showed support ... The European Union and the United States have accused Russia of infringing ...