The Soviet Union developed the Tupolev Tu-144 to challenge Britain's and France's Concorde, successfully flying its supersonic passenger jet first in December 1968 and reaching supersonic speeds ahead ...

The Soviets offer an olive branch that President John F. Kennedy is eager to accept even as Cuba’s Castro raises the stakes ...

U.S. success in rallying support in the Americas for a naval quarantine of Cuba and a strong speech by the U.S. ambassador to ...

India emerged from British colonial rule in 1947 determined to remain independent of both the American and Soviet blocs, but growing tensions with Pakistan and China gradually transformed its ...

He believed that active U.S. engagement in world affairs was the best means of presenting the promise of democracy to nations ...

Yana Skorobogatov examines the death penalty in the Soviet Union during the post-Stalin era, from the mid-1950s to 1991, in Fate in My Hands: The Death Penalty in the Soviet Union.

The Soviet RPD (Ruchnoy Pulemyot Degtyaryova) was a pioneering light machine gun that played a short but vital role in early ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, died in Moscow, on Tuesday, at the age of ninety-one. In the last two decades of his life, he rarely granted interviews. So, in 2010, when he ...

Decision-making criteria for corporate analysis gained from this report1. Observe whether the mechanism creating the problem ...

The 'Soya,' known as an Antarctic observation ship, was not originally built to go to the Antarctic. Its name at birth was ...

Mikhail Gorbachev – the last leader of the former Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991 – has died at the age of 91. Gorbachev died after a long illness, Russian state news agencies reported. “Mikhail ...

Imagine this as the scenario for a thriller. Four folk musicians with a social conscience decide on a daring humanitarian ...