The Soviet Union presented itself as a revolutionary state dedicated to ending imperialism, yet its political system, ...

A U.S. Air Force reconnaissance flight photographed evidence that the Soviet Union was installing nuclear-armed ballistic ...

In July 1957, the Soviet Union welcomed more than 34,000 young people from 131 countries to Moscow for the Sixth World ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, died in Moscow, on Tuesday, at the age of ninety-one. In the last two decades of his life, he rarely granted interviews. So, in 2010, when he ...

The transformation of this territory, however, was part of a much broader project. It was about constructing — and selling to ...

Originally produced eight decades ago, the impact of the IS-2 Heavy Tank still reverberates today. The formidable armored vehicle was vital to the Soviet Union during two of its most important ...

On May 15, 1988, the Soviet Union began withdrawing from Afghanistan after eight years of military intervention that cost an estimated 10,000 to 15,000 Soviet soldiers their lives and killed or ...

Michael Vlahos is a professor at The Johns Hopkins University Advanced Academic Programs. If the Americans had “Manifest Destiny and Mission” and regularly called on God as a witness to prove that the ...

Imagine this as the scenario for a thriller. Four folk musicians with a social conscience decide on a daring humanitarian ...

Hidden files have exposed how the Soviet Union spent decades covering up its building building and stockpiling of biological ...