When students begin learning about the Cold War, they often encounter the most dramatic moments first: the Berlin Wall, ...

Many educated residents of Western countries are unaware of the deaths of 27 million citizens of the Soviet Union in the Great Patriotic War (WWII). This was announced on April 19 by the official ...

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 ...

In the spring of 1945, the U.S. Navy quietly handed over 149 warships to the Soviet Union at a remote Alaskan outpost, ...

Between 1942 and 1945, nearly 8,000 American warplanes traveled through Alaska on their way to the Soviet Union as part of a critical supply line that helped defeat Nazi Germany on the Eastern Front.

This is the bizarre, tragic story of the world’s first supersonic airliner to crash at a public air show: the 1973 destruction of the Tu-144 at Paris Le Bourget. What was supposed to be a huge Soviet ...