--- title: Soviet Union | TIME description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. canonical: https://time.com/tag/soviet-union/ og:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:url: https://time.com/tag/soviet-union/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://gcp-na-images.contentstack.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 300 og:image:height: 300 og:image:alt: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:type: article twitter:card: summary twitter:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://gcp-na-images.contentstack.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Soviet Union ## Soviet Union *  Feb 4, 2020 ## [What I Learned About Beauty by Interviewing Women Who'd Been Prisoners of the Soviet Gulag](https://time.com/5776803/women-gulag-history/) [HISTORY](/section/history/) by Monika Zgustova *  Oct 24, 2016 ## [Clean Up Empty Lots to Reduce Shootings](https://time.com/4542441/clean-up-empty-lots-to-reduce-shootings/) [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) by The Aspen Institute *  Oct 13, 2016 ## [Polish Photographer Justyna Mielnikiewicz Wins W. Eugene Smith Grant](https://time.com/4528611/polish-photographer-justyna-mielnikiewicz-wins-w-eugene-smith-grant/) [WORLD](/section/world/) by Alexandra Genova *  Jul 20, 2016 ## [The Surprisingly Wild and Crazy Summers of Young Soviets in the 1960s](https://time.com/4176199/soviet-youth-summer-photos-bill-eppridge/) by Yana Skorobogatov *  Apr 20, 2016 ## [Why a Win in a Dutch Court Is Making Vladimir Putin So Happy](https://time.com/4301475/russia-appeal-case-yukos-the-hague/) [WORLD](/section/world/) by Simon Shuster *  Jan 26, 2016 ## [Discover Russia's Ghost Villages](https://time.com/4168699/russia-ghost-villages/) [WORLD](/section/world/) by Lucia De Stefani *  Apr 16, 2015 ## [U.S. Thriller Banned for Depicting Russia as 'Sub-human' Nation](https://time.com/3824664/child-44-russia-tom-hardy-gary-oldman-suhbhumans/) [ENTERTAINMENT](/section/entertainment/) by Kevin McSpadden *  Mar 18, 2015 ## [The Other Giant Leap: What Happened to the First Man to Walk in Space](https://time.com/3745861/leonov-spacewalk-50th-anniversary/) [HISTORY](/section/history/) by Jeffrey Kluger *  Dec 23, 2014 ## [See Life in Eastern Ukraine's Underground Shelters](https://time.com/3595789/see-life-in-eastern-ukraines-underground-shelters/) [WORLD](/section/world/) by Ye Ming *  Oct 9, 2014 ## [Why 'Aliens' 'Landed' in Russia 25 Years Ago](https://time.com/3475954/voronezh-ufo-report-1989/) [HISTORY](/section/history/) by Lily Rothman *  Aug 25, 2014 ## [Civil War Hangs Over Ukraine on Its Independence Day](https://time.com/3172733/ukraine-russia-war-independence-day-petro-poroshenko/) [WORLD](/section/world/) by David Stout *  May 13, 2014 ## [Strong Arm of the State: Alexander Chekmenev's Post-Independence Ukraine Passport Photos](https://time.com/3809299/ukraine-passport-photos/) [WORLD](/section/world/) by Simon Shuster *  May 7, 2014 ## [Picturing Stalin: Tracking a Tyrant's Face Around the World](https://time.com/3879757/picturing-stalin-a-tyrants-face-around-the-world/) by Ben Cosgrove *  Apr 30, 2014 ## [The Descent: Inside Hitler's Bunker](https://time.com/77721/inside-hitlers-bunker-eerie-chaos-beneath-berlin/) [WORLD](/section/world/) by Ben Cosgrove *  Apr 20, 2014 ## [Ukrainian PM: Putin Wants to Restore USSR](https://time.com/69621/ukraine-russia-easter/) [WORLD](/section/world/) by Nolan Feeney and TIME Video ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/"},"name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/tag/soviet-union/","name":"Soviet Union"}}]}] ```