The defeat of Nazi Germany secured Soviet survival but not relief from fear, repression, or sacrifice. This documentary ...

After the shock of invasion, the Soviet state endured through brutal winter fighting, forced mobilization, and extraordinary ...

For most of us in the West, until the fall of the Berlin Wall “Russia” was synonymous with the Soviet Union. Among the 15 ...

On Nov. 7, 1992, exactly 75 years after the Bolshevik Revolution, a yellow minibus with a fading “Baltic Tours” sign pulled ...

Conceptualized in 1939, two years before Nazi Germany betrayed their Soviet “ally,” the Soviet Navy was developing Project Kostromitinov. This Soviet aircraft carrier was a truly ambitious project—and ...

What should have been a brief trip 74 years ago this month turned into a disaster-movie-scale nightmare. Think of it as “The ...

The Soviet Union’s Tupolev Tu-4 strategic bomber, which entered service in 1949, represented one of the most glaring episodes of intellectual property theft in aviation history. Although the Cold War ...

This week, the conflict reached its 1,418th day, the same number of days the Soviet Union's Red Army fought against Nazi ...

In 1982 a Russian translation of Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind was issued in the Soviet Union. Judging by reports from that quarter, the book has been an enormous success—with those readers ...