National Archives and Records Administration The space race between the United States and the Soviet Union stepped up a gear ...

Over a few short months after the defeat of Nazism in May 1945, the ‘valiant Russians’ who had fought alongside Britain and ...

Prologue I remember President John F. Kennedy when, on June 10, 1963 gave the Commencement Address at the American University ...

Mostly Russian visitors now cavort along its historic beaches, hoping to avoid the Ukrainian drones whizzing toward military ...

The very public and acrimonious split between US President Donald Trump and his once-favorite aide Elon Musk would be ...

The most sensational event in recent Communist history was Nikita Khrushchev’s three ... the first days when the conflict between the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia began artificially to be blown ...

Ever since Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Russia has been treated as a “pariah state” ...

In 1962, Tereshkova was chosen from over 400 applicants to join the Soviet space programme. She underwent intense training alongside four other women, but ultimately, it was she who was selected to ...

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." ...

Analysis: 100 years after his death, Lenin seems to be an afterthought in modern Russia A century after the death of Vladimir Lenin, the founder of the Soviet Union is largely an afterthought in ...