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

The Soviet Army, with its enormous size and power, was the largest and most formidable military force in history. Between ...

The Ilyushin Il-62 is a legendary aircraft that became the flagship airliner of the Soviet Union. Introduced in the early ...

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

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 ...

When was the B-2 bomber made? These are the years this stealth military aircraft was produced and how many are still ...

Chinese leader Xi Jinping is entering trade negotiations with a grand strategy inspired by his understanding of what the ...

“The Soviet Union, whatever its long-term chances were, was not destined to go down when it did.” By the fall of 1991, however, deepening economic woes and secessionist bids by Soviet ...

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.