When World War II ended in 1945, the international system was fundamentally transformed. Six years of total war devastated ...
In the spring of 1945, the U.S. Navy quietly handed over 149 warships to the Soviet Union at a remote Alaskan outpost, ...
pt. I. The tsarist period. 1. Russian science before 1800. 2. Science in nineteenth-century Russia. 3. Russian intellectuals and Darwinism -- pt. II. Russian science and a Marxist revolution. 4. The ...
April 16, 1945 marked the start of the top-secret U.S.-Soviet operation “Project Hula,” and a Japan-Soviet territorial dispute that continues to this day. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, U.S ...
Innovative, efficient, and sometimes brutal in its engineering methods, the aviation industry in the Soviet Union had a rich ...
About a year into my field research in Kazakhstan, I went to the city of Kurchatov, once the secret command center of the ...