In the early 1980s, the struggle for power intensified among the party elite of the USSR. Leonid Brezhnev's illness and total corruption have forced the security forces to choose what the future of ...

MOSCOW -- Vladimir Semichastny, 77, who served as head of the dreaded Soviet-era KGB security and intelligence service from 1961 to 1967, died here Jan. 12 after a stroke. He played an active role in ...

Schattenberg suspects that her biography of Leonid Brezhnev, the Soviet Union’s leader from 1964 to 1982, may be read as an apologia. Indeed, on too many occasions, she tends to give Brezhnev the ...