The Cold War and its effects. Remarks delivered at the Jordan Center Workshop, New York University, November 1, 2024. My current reading of what Russia has become is based on my own experiences as an ...

Pete Rathburn is a copy editor and fact-checker with expertise in economics and personal finance and over twenty years of experience in the classroom. Investopedia / Paige McLaughlin Communism is a ...

Take a journey into Cold War aviation history with the TU-114—the Soviet Union’s record-breaking turboprop airliner. Adapted from the TU-95 bomber, this aircraft blended jet-like speed with turboprop ...

Big Fail: The Kiev-class hybrid aircraft carriers were the Soviet Union’s attempt to counter U.S. naval dominance during the Cold War. Designed with anti-submarine warfare and limited air capabilities ...

Could the moon landing have been an international program? Roger D. Launius President John F. Kennedy and Chairman Nikita Khrushchev during their meeting in Vienna, Austria. National Archives and ...

While Belarus is revering the feat of Soviet people who won the Great Patriotic War, erecting monuments to heroes and sentencing Nazi ...

In the spring of 1945, the U.S. Navy quietly handed over 149 warships to the Soviet Union at a remote Alaskan outpost, training the crews for the upcoming invasion of Japan. In the spring of 1945, ...

Eric Lusito crossed the former Soviet Union to explore vast scientific sites, some of which have been deserted for years, for ...

While most Georgians support closer integration with Western Europe, many people in industrial areas that collapsed along with Communism in the 1990s express nostalgia for the old Soviet prosperity.

It looked like nothing else in the sky - or sea. The Soviet VVA‑14 was part aircraft, part flying boat, part ground-effect experiment, and all terrifying innovation. Designed to hunt NATO submarines ...

When Republicans strategize about how to deal with China today, many of them point to President Ronald Reagan’s confrontational approach toward the Soviet Union as a model to emulate. H. R. McMaster, ...