In “Zbig,” Edward Luce tells the story of Zbigniew Brzezinski, a leading American strategist who had a notably eventful run ...

Discover the story of the Yakovlev UT-2, the Soviet Union's primary WWII pilot trainer that first flew on July 11, 1935.

1949 - Soviet Union explodes its first atomic device; recognises the Communist government in China. 1950 - Soviet Union and China sign 30-year alliance treaty.

The Soviet Union was the world's first communist country and had a major influence on 20th-century history — and still has an influence today.

Inspired by the subculture of antiestablishment defiance that arose in the conformist Soviet Union of the mid-1950s, “Hipsters” is of interest both as Russian and rebel history and as a ...

In the aftermath of the Second World War, as the Soviet Union imposed ideological control across Eastern Europe, the CIA ...

To gain insight on how the Soviet Union built moon-bound gear, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) carried out a covert spy job on a Soviet exhibit in 1959.

Making a flyover appearance at the 1950 Soviet May Day parade, the Il-28 went on to become one of the most prolific, reliable, and adaptable bombers in the arsenals of the Soviet Union, the Warsaw ...

U.S. Sent “Weather” Balloons to Spy on China and the Soviet Union in the 1950s When caught, the Eisenhower administration lied through its teeth about it.