The Cold War stands as one of the most significant events in United States and world history. Pavel Palazhchenko offers a ...

The Soviet Union detonated the most powerful nuclear weapon in the history of humankind, the Tsar Bomba, on October 30, 1961.

The U.S. took for granted during the Cold War that Soviet foreign policy was driven by the tenets of Marxism-Leninism toward imperial expansion and subversion. Joseph Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev, Leonid ...

Discover key historic events on November 7, including FDR's fourth term win, the Bolshevik Revolution, Nixon's re-election, and pivotal U.S. elections.

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 cosmonaut, ...

The often misunderstood history of the Soviet dissident movement. In To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause, historian Benjamin Nathans sheds light on how the protest movement reinvented itself at key ...

An article on the history of EPROMs in the Soviet Union by [Vladimir Yakovlev] over at The CPU Shack Museum caught our attention. It is part one of a series on the topic, and walks you through the ...

Development of the IS-4 began as early as 1943 at the ChKZ plant in Chelyabinsk. After the complicated and convoluted ...

The Soviet/Russian space program achieved numerous "firsts" in human spaceflight, including the first human in space (Yuri Gagarin, Vostok 1), the first spacewalk (Alexei Leonov, Voskhod 2), and the ...

The event, a salute to FJC’s network of schools, synagogues, and youth programs across the former Soviet space, featured ...