Compared to contemporaries like the American F-4 Phantom II, the MiG-21 was less complex and far cheaper to produce—but could ...

Back in the USSR of the 1950s and 60s, hipsters, desperate for decadent rock ’n’ roll, cut illegal records using X-ray film.

The Cold War was a period of intense competition between superpowers, with each side trying to outdo the other in variou ...

The fact that the Soviets were using large numbers of their older tanks did not inherently mean that they were likely to lose ...

The most striking feature of the Almaz station was the 23mm Nudelman-Rikhter (NR-23) cannon, a modified aircraft gun adapted ...

In the 1970s, the USSR used nuclear devices to try to send water from Siberia's rivers flowing south, instead of its natural ...

The Kremlin has increasingly embraced the Soviet dictator and his legacy, using them to exalt Russian history in a time of ...

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, little has been done to contain Russia’s consolidated dominance in the murky waters ...

Around 3 million ethnic Germans who emigrated from the former Soviet Union live in Germany today. Many have become prosperous ...

When the children arrive at a basement shelter in the Savyntsi Community Center, psychologist Olena Husman, in her blonde bob ...

Popular artists “on the bone” included Ella Fitzgerald and Elvis Presley, whose jazz and rock ’n’ roll recordings, to the ears of many Soviet citizens, represented freedom and self-expression.