Nikolai Baibakov, who served as Josef Stalin's oil commissar and later guided the Soviet Union's planned economy for two decades, has died. He was 97. Mr. Baibakov, believed to have been the last ...

In September 1934 the U. S. S. R., long considered an outcast by other powers, was voted into membership of the League of Nations, and its delegate and Foreign Commissar, Maxim Litvinoff, was duly ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's highest court on Thursday refused to legally rehabilitate Genrikh Yagoda, the head of the Soviet-era NKVD secret police who oversaw Stalinist purges in the 1930s and ...

It seems Putin does not believe in his own army and resorts to using "execution squads" to prevent Russian soldiers from deserting. The Soviet leadership with (standing at left) Central Committee ...

The advice of Anatol Lunatcharsky, Soviet Commissar of Education, to the Jews in Soviet Russia is simply to fu ## themselves in the melting pot of the union of Socialist Soviet Republics.