This Soviet 'sniper' camera looks more like a rifle than a photography tool and once sold for $63,000!

The Museum of Strategic Missile Forces tells the story of how Ukraine dismantled its nuclear weapons arsenal after ...

During the Cold War, the rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union produced some of the most radical machines ...

Explore the fascinating tale of the Kola Superdeep Borehole, a monumental scientific endeavor by the Soviet Union that aimed to explore the Earth's crust, revealing unexpected discoveries and ...

Julia Ioffe has created a riveting red history of the Soviet Union through a colourful cast of remarkable women: some of them ...

A Soviet machine gun team during World War II. After losing as many as 100,000 troops killed and wounded in Ukraine and forcibly drafting 300,000 unwilling men to replace them, the Russian army ...

A century on, Battleship Potemkin’s vision of oppression, courage and collective resistance still crackles with an energy ...

One legacy of the former Soviet Union is the New Year's feast. Ukrainians are reclaiming Christmas and old recipes.

Izabella Tabarovsky’s ‘Be a Refusenik’ offers a productive mindset and practical ideas for Jewish students facing ...

** When you buy products through the links on our site, we may earn a commission that supports NRA's mission to protect, preserve and defend the Second Amendment. ** Partisan bands had a rag-tag ...

Countless words will be dedicated in the following days to Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet leader who died Aug. 30 at the age of 91. But throughout his obituaries, two specific words will likely be ...