Few moments in history shocked the world like the fall of the Soviet Union. Once a superpower commanding half the globe, the USSR crumbled almost overnight. This video dives into the real reasons: a ...

Forced to resign on December 9, 1999, he left for his unremarkable successor Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin a state on the brink of ubiquitous domestic as well as foreign decline. Third, the creation of ...

When the Soviet Union fell, Russians lost their sense of past and future at once. Collective hallucinations flourished in the void. In the United States, our reality is now disintegrating in a similar ...

Historians labor to understand the causes of World War I, a conflict whose resolution helped give rise to Nazism. Existing diplomatic alliances triggered a broader conflict following the assassination ...

Vladimir Putin's most recent rhetoric once again spotlights the degree to which the Russian president is driven by resentment over the Soviet Union's collapse. The 1991 dissolution of the Soviet Union ...

Polar bears have taken over a former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics era abandoned polar research center in the ...

John le Carré has an impressive list of fans in the top echelons of Soviet intelligence. KGB veterans love citing his books, ...

While 1991 is often given as the end of the Cold War, the truth is that the Cold War never ended; it just paused before resuming again. With the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the reunification of ...

After World War II, two nations became the largest producers of fighter jets: the United States and the Soviet Union. Both countries routinely export their fighters to allied nations around the world, ...