Before the study was presented, the Soviet Politburo assumed — as many American Jews do to this day — that the majority of Jews choosing to emigrate were urban and generally college-educated.

MOSCOW — Grigory Romanov, a Politburo member who was Mikhail Gorbachev’s chief rival to become Soviet leader in the mid-1980s, has died, the Communist Party said Tuesday. He was 85. The party ...

The Soviet Union became a gerontocracy in its final years, contributing to its collapse. Historians say it's a cautionary tale for the US, whose leaders have been in power for decades.

In 1968, the Soviet Politburo strongly favored the Democratic candidate, Hubert Humphrey, out of fear of the Republican nominee, Richard Nixon, who in the 1950s had been known as a vehement anti ...

In 1932 and 1933, millions died across the Soviet Union—and the foreign press corps helped cover up the catastrophe. ... in the autumn of 1932, when the Soviet Politburo, ...

Mikhail Gorbachev – the last leader of the former Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991 ... He came to the attention of Mikhail Suslov and Yuri Andropov, members of the Politburo, ...

We may as well be watching newsreels approved by the Soviet Politburo. We’re witnessing […] Skip to content. All Sections. Subscribe Now. 62°F. Tuesday, May 13th 2025 eNewspaper.

In Moscow on July 27, 1989, at the offices of the Central Committee, a group of high-level officials gathered in the office of Lev Zaikov, the Soviet Politburo member who oversaw the country's ...