During the Cold War, the CIA may have had as much success with books and magazines as with gun-running and spies.

In “Zbig,” Edward Luce tells the story of Zbigniew Brzezinski, a leading American strategist who had a notably eventful run ...

The Soviet Union was the world's first communist country and had a major influence on 20th-century history — and still has an influence today.

In the aftermath of the Second World War, as the Soviet Union imposed ideological control across Eastern Europe, the CIA ...

Decades after defying the Soviet Union, Touro Faculty Rabbi Josef Mendelevich brings his story to a new audience with his ...

National Archives and Records Administration The space race between the United States and the Soviet Union stepped up a gear on May 25, 1961, when American President John F. Kennedy announced that his ...

IGN First takes a look at the alternate Soviet history backstory behind Atomic Heart, the upcoming chaotic FPS from developer Mundfish.

The Soviet Union’s Tupolev Tu-4 strategic bomber, which entered service in 1949, represented one of the most glaring episodes ...

University of Alaska history professor Tyler Kirk in Syktyvkar, a city in the Russia’s Komi Republic, in 2016. Kirk was doing research as a Fulbright Scholar for his recently published book ...

Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate created a portrait of the Soviets in WW2 that revealed "the grand sweep of history alongside the granular detail within", writes Nicholas Barrett.

A new book explores the legacy of the Soviet Union’s human spaceflight program Diane Tedeschi Yuri Gagarin’s status as an icon is evident in Russia’s many memorials for the pioneering ...

The history of whaling shows how humans have wreaked careless havoc on the ocean, but also how they can change course. In my new book, Red Leviathan: The Secret History of Soviet Whaling, I ...