Why have so many men in Soviet Russia turned to alcohol? Find out in this fascinating video! In this video, I explore why so ...

Speaking at Davos, Radoslaw Sikorski said Putin was overspending on the military and bankrupting Russia. "He was very insistent that this mistake should not be repeated. And he's doing exactly that," ...

"You're next," said a Russian historian I interviewed in 1993 about the Soviet Union's collapse in late 1991. I was an American student in St. Petersburg, and he was referring to the United States.

One of the most notorious spies in U.S. history, Aldrich Ames, died on Tuesday at the age of 84. As a CIA officer, Ames sold ...

One of the Soviet Union’s most ambitious postwar aircraft projects, the ill-fated T-60S bomber, offers a glimpse of the modern Russian bomber force that could have been. In the mid-1980s, the Soviet ...

Let us paint the scene for you. The day is September 1st, 1939, in the Soviet Union, and you're a middle-management engineer working at the Kharkiv Locomotive Factory in Ukraine. While a particular ...

Discover Harry Dexter White's role in shaping the postwar global economy through the Bretton Woods Agreement and the ...

The World Cup has a long, storied and very well-known history. Most football fans know lots of World Cup tales from before they were born — from Pele’s three triumphs to Dutch Total Football and ...

The Soviet Union’s Tupolev Tu-4 strategic bomber, which entered service in 1949, represented one of the most glaring episodes of intellectual property theft in aviation history. Although the Cold War ...

In 100 years of life, Dorothea Schade survived a Soviet gulag after World War II and immigrated to America for a better life.