The Seawolf-class submarines were designed during the Cold War as advanced nuclear-powered fast-attack submarines to counter ...

"This was a guy who spanned the ultra-cerebral world of the spymaster and the action man world of Spetsnaz [special ... been planted in total by the Soviet Union during the Cold War.

Nikita Kruschev’s attempts to liberalise the leadership of the Soviet Union was ousted by his political rivals on 1964.

Rare archival photos capture Mongolia in the period from 1924 to 1992 when the East Asian country was a communist satellite ...

Making a flyover appearance at the 1950 Soviet May Day parade, the Il-28 went on to become one of the most prolific, reliable ...

An archival label in the United States was going to release a huge compilation of records from the U.S.S.R. Then Russia ...

The Soviet Union detonated its first atomic bomb, known in the West as Joe-1, on Aug. 29, 1949, at Semipalatinsk Test Site, in Kazakhstan. The Soviets called their first atomic test "First Lightning." ...

The D-74, an old artillery system exported by the Soviets, has reappeared in Donetsk, leading to suspicions that North Korea ...

How did Stalin get away with murder? Stalin’s name meant "man of steel" and he lived up to it. He oversaw the war machine that helped defeat Nazism and was the supreme ruler of the Soviet Union ...

On September 26, 1983, the planet came terrifyingly close to a nuclear holocaust. The Soviet Union’s missile attack early warning system displayed, in large red letters, the word “LAUNCH”; a ...

Foreign policy factor in State-Church relations in the Soviet Union during World War II and early post-war. Cuestiones Políticas, Vol. 38, Issue. Especial II, p. 170. Alisauskiene, Milda and ...