Apollo 11 launched into one of the most dramatic races of the entire Space Age without most of the public realizing another spacecraft was heading for the Moon. The Soviet Union launched Luna 15 on ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, died in Moscow, on Tuesday, at the age of ninety-one. In the last two decades of his life, he rarely granted interviews. So, in 2010, when he ...

This time, I will share my reading notes on the timeless masterpiece by sociologist and economist Naoki Komuro, “The Collapse of the Soviet Empire: The Dying Bear Struggles in the World”.What is ...

Originally produced eight decades ago, the impact of the IS-2 Heavy Tank still reverberates today. The formidable armored vehicle was vital to the Soviet Union during two of its most important ...

The Soviet Union's first “full-scale variable-sweep wing fighter”The MiG-23 is a variable-sweep wing fighter created by the ...

On May 15, 1988, the Soviet Union began withdrawing from Afghanistan after eight years of military intervention that cost an estimated 10,000 to 15,000 Soviet soldiers their lives and killed or ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, who enabled the Cold War to come to a peaceful end during his astonishing tenure as the leader of the Soviet Union, has died. He was 91 and reportedly died after a long illness, ...

Unemployment has not existed in the Soviet Union since 1930—officially. The Russians are nonetheless finding it harder to ignore the growing number of people who are out of work. The rate is still ...

Every revolution is a surprise. Still, the latest Russian Revolution must be counted among the greatest of surprises. In the years leading up to 1991, virtually no Western expert, scholar, official, ...