The Soviet Arctic (some of which is south of the Circle) is the Soviet Union’s pioneerland, a vast (2,316,600 sq. mi.), cold, potentially rich region, bigger than the West that lay before the ...

By April 1983, Samantha Smith, now 10, was worried as Cold War tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union raised the threat of nuclear confrontation.

T he Soviet Union is unsurpassed in the art of defense budgetry. The point of the game is not so much to lay out actual fiscal allocations as to demonstrate to outsiders the latest Kremlin ...

Here's the standard high school history class summary of the Soviet Union: The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a communist state from 1922 to 1991 and was a big rival of the US from ...

In the intense Cold War rivalry, the Soviet Union raced to match Western advancements in jet aviation, driven by national pride and ambition. The Tupolev Tu-104 emerged from this urgency, modeled ...

Kosmos 482 was launched by the then-Soviet Union in 1972 as part of a series of missions bound for Venus. But this one never made it out of orbit around Earth, stranded there by a rocket malfunction.

In one direction lies a future built on citizen engagement and a shared vision. In the other lies the Soviet Union in 1991, a superpower that no one imagined could collapse — until it did.

Venera 8, a Soviet probe for a set of Venus missions, was Cosmos 482's sibling spacecraft. NASA The final hours of the 53-year, errant flight of the Soviet Union’s Cosmos 482 space probe are ...

Fitzpatrick, a doyenne of Soviet historians, offers the lay reader a concise, chronological account of the Soviet Union premised on the notion that accidents, rather than inevitabilities, drive human ...