When he came back to Earth, Gagarin was looked upon as not just a hero, but the very embodiment of the Soviet Union’s power.

In 1965, a group of Israeli amateurs shocked the Soviet chess elite, securing a moral victory in the Cold War arena. The ...

A walk through Moscow’s VDNKh reveals a Soviet-era exhibition turned vibrant permanent general-purpose trade show and ...

It’s a cliché to say that those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t true.

Antony Beevor says Rasputin was a historically important figure who accelerated the demise of the Romanov dynasty ...

This lesson details how NASA got from Alan Shepard rocketing into low orbit in 1961 to Neil Armstrong taking "one small step" on the lunar surface in 1969 and today's ...

The wars of east and west that fused to become the Second World War remade the political map of the world. This is the story of how a world, centuries in the making, was completely remade in a couple ...

Retrospective: a week of turning points that shaped the world (The Independent) The collapse of old regimes and the long ...

The mission, conducted under the Soviet Union’s Intercosmos programme, was as much a diplomatic milestone as a scientific one ...

Excerpted with permission from the publisher The Nehru Years: An International History of Indian Non-Alignment, Swapna Kona ...

With U.S. bombs raining down on Iran and Tehran’s leaders responding by hitting targets across the Persian Gulf and ...

On March 11, 1990, Lithuania became the first Soviet Republic to declare its independence from the Soviet Union. The U.S.S.R. did not accept Lithuania’s independence and imposed an economic blockade ...