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, ...

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

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 world in Ukraine, populated it with thousands of participants and filmed them for three years. Two decades, 14 films and innumerable scandals later, his ...

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

Until the fall of the Soviet Union around 1990 you’d be forgiven as a proud Soviet citizen for thinking that the USSR’s technology was on par with the decadent West. After the Iron Curtain lifted it ...

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 ...

"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.

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.