The USSR, or Soviet Union, was one of the most influential and complex political entities of the 20th century. This video ...

It’s been 33 years now since the Soviet Union collapsed ... and coalition countries fighting in Afghanistan. This was an important strategic move that put the country on the map for western ...

After the Soviet Union crumbled in the early 1990s, something altogether eerie was discovered. Hundreds and thousands of maps of countries and cities throughout the world had been drawn up by ...

Isabel van Brugen is a Newsweek Reporter based in Kuala Lumpur. Her focus is reporting on the Russia-Ukraine war. Isabel joined Newsweek in 2021 and had previously worked with news outlets ...

Poland was never officially part of the Soviet Union but in the post-WWII era, it was a Communist nation and a satellite state. Satellite states are countries which are formally independent in the ...

Images from The Red Atlas: How the Soviet Union Secretly Mapped America, by John Davies and Alexander J. Kent, published by the University of Chicago Press In this map of San Diego, the added ...

Seven countries that had been locked behind ... economic and social character of what was once the Soviet Union, as well as the entire map of Eastern Europe. But he, more than anyone, knew how ...

The Soviet Union stretched across Asia and Europe and ... Yet, it remains one of the most isolated nations on the map. The government controls media, politics, and daily life to restrict the ...