What went awry? Putin is the main culprit for Russia’s return to authoritarianism, aggression and hostility to the West. But American arrogance and presumptions cannot be dismissed.

Russia used to rely on Ukrainian expertise for its missile programs, but its actions in 2014 and beyond ended that cooperation.

Poland's foreign minister said Putin used to criticize the Soviet approach that helped bankrupt it, but now he's repeating the mistake.

The Soviet Union was home to some of the most ambitious and bizarre aerospace projects in history, many of which never saw the light of day. From the hypersonic DSB-LK bomber, designed to outrun even the SR-71,

In To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause, historian Benjamin Nathans sheds light on how the protest movement reinvented itself at key junctures and eventually to great effect.

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A controversial memoir of a Finnish woman who migrated to Stalin’s Soviet Russia in the 1930s and escaped in 1941. Ninety years later, her granddaughter has translated the diary into English.

Mark Shterenberg, who instilled in his family his core values of hard work and a good education, worked at JPL and Hughes Aircraft. He was 80.

Nevertheless, The Sound of Utopia infuses a bleak subject with verve, inspiring admiration for musicians so dedicated to their art that they persevered inside the grind of what the writer and chronicler of atrocity Vasily Grossman called a “vast system of mechanized enthusiasm”.

State television news has focused coverage on the 81st anniversary of Russia breaking the Siege of Leningrad. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Yes, there were Soviet troops in North Vietnam, and in significantly larger numbers than their Korean War predecessors. Although the Cold War never turned into a “hot war,” i.e., full-blown World War III between the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact on the side and the United States and its NATO allies on the other,

At the height of the Cold War, those of us on the western side of the wall had plenty of choice over our radio listening, even if we stuck with our country’s monolithic broadcaster. On the