violent crimes in the Soviet Union were less prevalent than in the United States. Soviet Union had low occurrence of drug abuse. Corruption was common; in particular...

The war crimes and crimes against humanity which were perpetrated by the Soviet Union and its armed forces from 1919 to 1991 include acts which were committed...

punishment in the Soviet Union was a legal penalty for most of the country's existence. The claimed legal basis for capital punishment was Article 22 of the Fundamental...

with the National Socialist genocide as a logical, if extreme response to the horrors of Communism led to Wehrmacht crimes in the Soviet Union being...

lit. "inflicting damage", "harming") was a crime specified in the criminal code of the Soviet Union in the Stalin era. It is often translated as "sabotage";...

Prostitution in the Soviet Union was not officially recognised domestically as a social phenomenon until 1986. Prostitution was regulated in pre-revolutionary...

SSSR) was the interior ministry of the Soviet Union from 1946 to 1991. The MVD was established as the successor to the NKVD during reform of the People's...

a collective of various organized crime related elements originating in the former Soviet Union (FSU). Any of the mafia's groups may be referred to as...

A "thief in law" (or thief with code, Russian: вор в зако́не, romanized: vor v zakone) in the Soviet Union, the post-Soviet states, and their respective...

of the greatest crimes in military history". Nevertheless, their fate is much less well studied. Although the Soviet Union announced the death penalty for...