In public, the Soviet Union was noncommittal. The official government newspaper Pravda, for example, dismissed its nation’s own 1963 proposal for a Moon mission as premature.

80th anniversary of the victory that crushed Nazism, liberated Europe, and laid the foundations of the African national freedom movement ...

Unlike the Soviet Union, which was largely excluded from the Western economic system, China has become central to it. China's rise is not a miracle—it is a return.

Here's the standard high school history class summary of the Soviet Union: The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a communist state from 1922 to 1991 and was a big rival of the US from ...

America’s current retreat from world power recalls that of the Soviet Union after 1988. Is the U.S. poised to collapse like the Soviet Union did?

Putin is repeating a Soviet-era mistake, which is ruining Russia's economy, Poland's foreign minister said. Speaking at Davos, Radoslaw Sikorski said Putin was overspending on the military and ...

Discover the Story Behind a Legendary Exposé of the Brutality of the Soviet Union Published on this day in 1973, “The Gulag Archipelago” drew on Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s ...

By the 1960s, the Soviet Union was the world’s largest whaling nation. Whalers such as the legendary captain Aleksei Solyanik were celebrated as superstars, comparable to astronauts like Yuri ...

A SOVIET space rocket has been left to rot near a desert in an abandoned ship graveyard. The rusting 2,650-ton Energia M rocket was once envisioned as the USSR’s lethal weapon that could take… ...