Many Americans know of Josef Stalin’s Terror of the late 1930s, during which more than 1 million people were arrested for ...

Demikhov was a pioneer of heart surgery. But thanks to his other, unusual, "interests", that hardly ever gets brought up.

The secret Cold War role played by a giant radio telescope in the middle of the Cheshire countryside has been revealed.

On October 18, 1962, President Kennedy meets Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, who insists Soviet actions in Cuba are ...

In 1987, a teenager with limited flying experience managed to fly straight into the heart of the Soviet Union, evading one of ...

Since taking over Russia in 1999, Vladimir Putin has turned a nation grappling with the collapse of the Soviet Union into a ...

This well-received Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks collaboration dramatizes a relatively lesser-known historical event ...

Over a 40-year period, up to 1989, the Soviet Union detonated 456 nuclear weapons in present-day Kazakhstan. A new documentary sees three generations of women speak about wounds and healing.

A stunning juxtaposition of history and modern life, Transnistria exists as a time warp from before the Iron Curtain fell.

** When you buy products through the links on our site, we may earn a commission that supports NRA's mission to protect, preserve and defend the Second Amendment. ** Partisan bands had a rag-tag ...

The plant – known by the abbreviations Pivdenmash in Ukrainian and Yuzhmash in Russian – is renowned in both warring ...

It’s rare that we look to Soviet-era cinema to find positive queer representation, but surprisingly enough, one overlooked ...