Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, was one of the largest military campaigns in history, ...

In one of the most remarkable non-violent revolutions in history, the people of Estonia used music as their greatest weapon.

1922 - Union treaty formally joins Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and the Transcaucasus - which were divided in 1936 into Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan - into the Soviet Union. 1922 - Germany ...

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 ...

This series of articles examines why today’s nuclear landscape is more complicated and, in many ways, more precarious than ...

Two decades after the Soviet Union’s collapse, Russians, Ukrainians, and Lithuanians are unhappy with the direction of their countries and disillusioned with the state of their politics. Enthusiasm ...

The Soviet Union Killed an Appalling Number of Whales. I Wanted to Know Why. The history of Soviet whaling belongs to anyone who looks out to sea and sees nothing.

A defunct Soviet spacecraft, Kosmos 482, is expected to fall back to Earth between May 8-12, 2025. Launched in 1972, the Venus-bound craft malfunctioned and has been orbiting Earth for 53 years.