In 1958, with Sputnik shaking American confidence in the Space Race, the US Air Force developed Project A119: a secret ...

The B-47 Stratojet transformed bomber design with swept wings derived from captured German research, six podded jet engines, ...

The Two Prosecutors director cuts together documentary footage shot by a TV crew in the 1970s to try and get across what daily life in the USSR was like ...

Director Ilya Khrzhanovsky built a sealed Soviet world in Ukraine, populated it with thousands of participants and filmed ...

Director Ilya Khrzhanovsky built a sealed world in Ukraine, populated it with thousands of participants and filmed them for ...

From a Cold War nuclear programme to the modern race for rare earth magnets, this quiet Estonian city can’t escape ...

One of the many little-known facts about the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is that some 25% of its territory lies north of the Arctic Circle. The Soviet Arctic (some of which is south of the ...

"You're next," said a Russian historian I interviewed in 1993 about the Soviet Union's collapse in late 1991. I was an American student in St. Petersburg, and he was referring to the United States.

On 2 September 1991, the Congress of People’s Deputies voted for the dissolution of the Soviet Union, allowing its republics to opt for independence ...

The DSA advertised writings on Tuesday by a former Communist Party USA leader recounting his time in the pro-Soviet group.

At an incredible seven miles deep, the Kola Superdeep Borehole is an impressive achievement of engineering and a small glimpse into our energy future.

More than 400 gold bars were on their way to the U.S. as payment for war materials when German ships sunk the HMS Edinburgh.