What went awry? Putin is the main culprit for Russia’s return to authoritarianism, aggression and hostility to the West. But American arrogance and presumptions cannot be dismissed.

Russia used to rely on Ukrainian expertise for its missile programs, but its actions in 2014 and beyond ended that cooperation.

In To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause, historian Benjamin Nathans sheds light on how the protest movement reinvented itself at key junctures and eventually to great effect.

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The Soviet Union was home to some of the most ambitious and bizarre aerospace projects in history, many of which never saw the light of day. From the hypersonic DSB-LK bomber, designed to outrun even the SR-71,

A controversial memoir of a Finnish woman who migrated to Stalin’s Soviet Russia in the 1930s and escaped in 1941. Ninety years later, her granddaughter has translated the diary into English.

Mark Shterenberg, who instilled in his family his core values of hard work and a good education, worked at JPL and Hughes Aircraft. He was 80.

Nevertheless, The Sound of Utopia infuses a bleak subject with verve, inspiring admiration for musicians so dedicated to their art that they persevered inside the grind of what the writer and chronicler of atrocity Vasily Grossman called a “vast system of mechanized enthusiasm”.

Figures given by US president on Soviet losses during World War II do not correspond to official data from Russian historians, specialists from across continent, says Kremlin - Anadolu Ajansı

The former head of Ukraine’s military intelligence recalls how thousands of tactical nuclear weapons were removed from its arsenals by the Russian military.

Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov won a world championship title together in pairs skating in 1994 and narrowly missed out on Olympic medals that year at the Lillehammer Games before moving to the U.S. and coaching generations of young skaters in New England.

Here's the standard high school history class summary of the Soviet Union: The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a communist state from 1922 to 1991 and was a big rival of the US from WWII to the end of the '80s.