In “Zbig,” Edward Luce tells the story of Zbigniew Brzezinski, a leading American strategist who had a notably eventful run as Jimmy Carter’s national security adviser.

Inspired by the subculture of antiestablishment defiance that arose in the conformist Soviet Union of the mid-1950s, “Hipsters” is of interest both as Russian and rebel history and as a ...

The Cold War prompted many bizarre plans—one British idea involved using live chickens to maintain nuclear landmines.

The Soviet Union is unsurpassed in the art of defense budgetry. The point of the game is not so much to lay out actual fiscal allocations as to demonstrate to outsiders the latest Kremlin ...

Thirty years after Moldova announced its independence from the Soviet Union, ... probably in the late 1950s. A boy rides his bike down a once-busy riverside path in Rosietici.

Russian officers with Soviet and Russian flags during the Victory Day Parade at Red Square on May 9, 2022 in Moscow, Russia. Guests on the Russia state TV discussed the Soviet Union's achievements ...

Mikhail S. Gorbachev, Soviet leader who knocked down the walls between East and West, dies at 91.