The Soviet Union and the United States were allies during World War II while working to crush Hitler’s Germany. However, the Second World War had barely ended when relations between ...

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

The year is 1983. It’s two years before Mikhail Gorbachev will come to power in the Soviet Union, Ronald Reagan is president of the U.S., the Cold War is again heating up, I am in high school ...

The Soviet Union became a gerontocracy in its final years, contributing to its collapse. Historians say it's a cautionary tale for the US, whose leaders have been in power for decades.

Soviet Media's Portrait of the United States. This CIA video briefing from 1986 depicts how Soviet state-run media portrayed America. In 2011, the Central Intelligence Agency’s Information ...

How the MiG-25 perplexed the United States The Soviet Union kept the Foxbat a secret before revealing it to the public at the 1967 October Revolution airshow.

Between June 24, 1948 and May 12, 1949, the Soviet Union prevented all shipments from traveling overland to the areas of Berlin controlled by the United States, Britain and France. The Soviet ...

When the United States and Soviet Union Fought It Out Over Fashion The Russians may have been winning the space race in the 1950s, but they couldn’t hold a candle to the sophistication of ...

D uring the Cold War, which lasted from roughly 1947 to 1991, several notable Soviet citizens defected to the United States. Each defection was a victory of sorts in the war of ideological ...

The Soviet Union answered with something much more horrifying, the Tsar Bomba. This bomb blew the United States out of the water. Its yield was five times that of the B53 at 50 megatons.