Nina Khrushcheva, great-granddaughter of former Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev ... Her great-grandfather, Nikita Khrushchev, led the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964, a period marked by significant ...
Gorbachev was the top Soviet leader when he held the posts of general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) between 1985 and 1991 and head of state ...
Analysis: 100 years after his death, Lenin seems to be an afterthought in modern Russia A century after the death of Vladimir Lenin, the founder of the Soviet Union is largely an afterthought in ...
Leaders of American and western Jewish organizations ... opened the doors and allowed thousands of Jews to leave the Soviet Union for a life of religious freedom in the United States and Israel ...