A group of 10 to 15 year old boys from the Young Pioneer Organization of the Soviet Union arrived at the US embassy carrying a hand carved great seal of the United States of America. They ...

The United States was dragged unwillingly into World War II by the surprise Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, ...

A new book explores the legacy of an often-overlooked architectural style born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan’s capital.

The Soviet Union detonated its first atomic bomb, known in the West as Joe-1, on Aug. 29, 1949, at Semipalatinsk Test Site, in Kazakhstan. The Soviets called their first atomic test "First Lightning." ...

Additionally, Addleton says, due to its remoteness and the fact Mongolia never joined the Warsaw Pact -- the Soviet Union’s equivalent of NATO -- the country “never entered into the popular ...

The chunky 1951 Warszawa M-20 bears the serial number 000001 it had when it left the FSO Passenger Car Factory in Warsaw on Nov. 6 of that year, exactly 73 years ago. It is a relic of the period of ...

He shows how, in the second half of the 1960s, the Soviet Union sought to dismantle the compartmentalized nature of Bretton Woods in order to escape its material ostracism and pave a path to global ...

Mr Gorbachev took power in 1985 and introduced reforms, as well as opening up the Soviet Union to the world. But he was unable to prevent the slow collapse of the union, and many Russians blamed ...

Alexander Anufriev, a nonconformist artist from the Soviet Union who, after surviving a devastating earthquake in his 20s, spent decades making expressive, brightly colored paintings of a single ...

For four decades, Castro purposely stood at the center of the dangerous game the United States, the Soviet Union and sometimes China played for political pre-eminence in the Third World.

Malaysian Journal of Syariah and Law, Vol. 12, Issue. 2, p. 375. Church-state relations have undergone a number of changes during the seven decades of the existence of the Soviet Union. In the 1920s ...

Alexander Anufriev, a nonconformist artist from the Soviet Union who, after surviving a devastating earthquake in his 20s, spent decades making expressive, brightly colored paintings of a single ...