For most of us in the West, until the fall of the Berlin Wall “Russia” was synonymous with the Soviet Union. Among the 15 ...

"You're next," said a Russian historian I interviewed in 1993 about the Soviet Union's collapse in late 1991. I was an American student in St. Petersburg, and he was referring to the United States.

After emerging from World War II as a global power, the Soviet Union began to slow from within. Economic strain, rigid ...

Despite its impressive nature, the Lira-class was in no real way a strategic game-changer for the Soviets in their bid to defeat the West—and its costs were immense. During the Cold War, many radical ...

From the collapse of the Berlin Wall to the most recent proclamations from Washington's foreign policy think tanks, a persistent illusion has shaped American strategic thinking: the belief that ...

Tsar Bomba was a three-stage device, involving the fusion of hydrogen isotopes. A modified Tu-95 bomber codenamed “Bear” dropped it from the air. On the day the iconic bomb was dropped, Soviet Air ...

Millions of Americans who watched Team USA lose an overtime thriller to rival Canada in the inaugural 4 Nations Face-Off hockey championship this week got a taste of what it was like in 1980 — but ...

One "Reagan" feature film actor, a Soviet-era immigrant, said he thought he might have made a mistake coming to the U.S. before President Ronald Reagan took office, citing concerns about the state of ...