  We review the phenomenon of color coherence in quantum chromodynamics (QCD),
its implications for hard and soft processes with nuclei, and its experimental
manifestations. The relation of factorization theorems in QCD with color
coherence phenomena in deep inelastic scattering (DIS) and color coherence
phenomena in hard exclusive processes is emphasized. Analyzing numerically the
QCD evolution equation for conventional and skewed parton densities in nuclei,
we study the onset of generalized color transparency and nuclear shadowing of
the sea quark and gluon distributions in nuclei as well as related phenomena.
Such novel results as the dependence of the effective coherence length on $Q^2$
and general trends of the QCD evolution are discussed. The limits of the
applicability of the QCD evolution equation at small Bjorken $x$ are estimated
by comparing the inelastic quark-antiquark- and two gluon-nucleon (nucleus)
cross sections, calculated within the DGLAP approximation, with the dynamical
boundaries, which follow from the unitarity of the $S$ matrix for purely QCD
interactions. We also demonstrate that principles of color coherence play an
important role in the processes of soft diffraction off nuclei.
