Here's the standard high school history class summary of the Soviet Union: The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a communist state from 1922 to 1991 and was a big rival of the US from WWII to the end of the '80s.

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The Soviet Union was home to some of the most ambitious and bizarre aerospace projects in history, many of which never saw the light of day. From the hypersonic DSB-LK bomber, designed to outrun even the SR-71,

In To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause, historian Benjamin Nathans sheds light on how the protest movement reinvented itself at key junctures and eventually to great effect.

It already appears evident that the days of Russia serving as its leading arms supplier have come to an ignominious end.

The revelation that China’s DeepSeek has built a better artificial intelligence (AI) mousetrap than its much richer American counterparts set off a panic among tech investors Monday, causing the

Nevertheless, The Sound of Utopia infuses a bleak subject with verve, inspiring admiration for musicians so dedicated to their art that they persevered inside the grind of what the writer and chronicler of atrocity Vasily Grossman called a “vast system of mechanized enthusiasm”.

The Soviet Union's October 1957 launch of the world's first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, stunned the U.S., which reckoned it had a commanding lead in "the Space Race."

The plane never entered serial production, but it did contribute mightily to the overall design and development of future Russian aircraft.

A controversial memoir of a Finnish woman who migrated to Stalin’s Soviet Russia in the 1930s and escaped in 1941. Ninety years later, her granddaughter has translated the diary into English.

Putin is undismayed and vows to press on with his plan to rebuild the Soviet Union. Another reason Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022 was because Ukraine was negotiating with NATO to become a member. Ukraine was also about to become a member of the EU,

Poland's foreign minister said Putin used to criticize the Soviet approach that helped bankrupt it, but now he's repeating the mistake.