Mongolia was the first country outside of Russia to turn communist. BBC Presenter, Lucy Hedges meets a local historian who ...
Yordanov consulted more than 20 archives across Eastern Europe, as well as in Russia, Cuba, and the United States, to craft ...
Peri’s book documents the discovery of thousands of letters between Soviet and American women dating from 1943 to 1953.
On Oct. 16, 1978, the cardinal electors of the Roman Catholic Church elected Polish Cardinal Karol Wojtyla to sit on the ...
In 1935 Soviet humorists Ilf and Petrov were allowed to visit the United States where they embarked on a cross-country road ...
The MiG-29 and Su-27 were the Soviet Union's iconic fighter jets of the Cold War, but these dogfighters served sometimes very ...
Red Army commanders highly valued the ‘Willys’ for its excellent driving characteristics. And, after the war, provincial ...
On October 20, 1970, the Soviet Union launched the Zond 8 spacecraft on a mission to the moon. ‘On This Day in Space’ Video ...
"The colonel was no low-level KGB thug," Mr. Daniloff wrote of the man who interrogated him for 30 hours when he was jailed ...
Rare archival photos capture Mongolia in the period from 1924 to 1992 when the East Asian country was a communist satellite ...
World War I brought down four dynasties and their empires: Russia’s Romanovs, the Middle East’s Ottoman Turks, central and ...
The country’s aspiration to join the E.U. will now be enshrined in the Constitution but the referendum was incredibly close.