Unsurprisingly, some in Eastern Europe view the current US-Russia talks over Ukraine’s future as a revival of this kind of ...

Indeed there is reason to suspect that the real purpose in using them was less to force a Japanese defeat than to warn the Soviet Union to be amenable to American wishes in the construction of the ...

The often misunderstood history of the Soviet dissident movement ... To the dissidents of the Soviet Union, that question was so relevant that it became a famous and ironic toast.

"The Soviet Union took on the West and lost," he said. Sikorski said that Putin "is on the record saying that under Brezhnev, the Soviet Union overspent on the military and bankrupted the country." ...

Radioactive materials are found naturally in the Earth. But even so, saying an area is radioactive can conjure up images of ...

To the dissidents of the Soviet Union, that question was so relevant ... a new book by Benjamin Nathans dissects the history of the Soviet dissident movement from its rapid rise in the mid-1960s ...

In April of 1972, Russell Targ, a Columbia-trained physicist with an unusual interest in the paranormal, met with the Office ...

In contrast to the U.S.’s desultory interest in civil defense, the Soviet Union is well advanced on a thoroughgoing program to protect its people against nuclear attack. The Soviet government ...

Although the Cold War never turned into a “hot war,” i.e., full-blown World War III between the Soviet Union and the Warsaw ... recent video from the Simple History YouTube channel—reshared ...

United States Olympic ice hockey coach, Herb Brooks, left, speaks to members of the team during a break in practice at the ...

Winston Churchill was one of the most consequential public figures of the last century, a man of many interests. Even now, ...

"The siege carried away more than one million lives," he said. Teaching of history in the Soviet Union and Russia has always focused far more on the vast losses among Soviet soldiers and ...