Some of the global conflicts stem from the vacuum left by the collapse of the USSR. In what ways has the Ukraine crisis ...

The Soviet Union’s fall and the subsequent end of the Cold War forced a reexamination of spending priorities. No longer were defense projects simply handed a blank check. The F-22's production was ...

Queen Elizabeth II wasn't told details of her long-time art adviser's double life as a Soviet spy because palace officials ...

Nicole Hemmer, for one, has argued that American right-wingers increasingly jettisoned Reagan’s sunny optimism in favor of a ...

Before the fall of the Iron Curtain and subsequent collapse of the Soviet Union during the 1989-1992 period, the nations of the Soviet Empire produced a fascinating range of cars, trucks ...

Russia's Africa Corps has replaced the Wagner Group, which was formerly led by Yevgeny Prigozhin who died in August 2023 ...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn in West Germany following his deportation from the Soviet Union in February 1974 Public domain via Wikimedia Commons By 1973, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was already “Russia ...

For much of the 20th century, the Soviet Union performed this role for the West ... maturity, decline and fall”. What follows is a selection of 64 essays, which the reader is invited to follow ...

Before the fall of the Iron Curtain and subsequent collapse of the Soviet Union during the 1989-1992 period, the nations of the Soviet Empire produced a fascinating range of cars, trucks ...

A third, Kim Philby, continued to work for foreign intelligence agency MI6 despite falling under suspicion ... whose members spilled secrets to the Soviet Union from the heart of the U.K ...

The end of the Cold War By the beginning of the 1980s, the Soviet Union faced several challenges. The taking down of the Berlin Wall in 1989 kick-started the fall of the Soviet Union.