Mark Smith’s impressive history surveys life in the Soviet Union, and its advances and failures from Khrushchev to Gorbachev ...

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In a series of conversations with POLITICO, Reza Pahlavi, son of the last shah, shared his blueprint for replacing Ayatollah ...

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From Iran to Iraq, Brazil to Vietnam, Washington has sought to topple leaders and regimes it thinks are acting against its ...

The first decades following the Russian Revolution saw enormous changes in women’s social role, but early promises of ...

Since its founding in 1958, NASA has occupied a special place in the American imagination. With immense successes such as the ...

Russia’s once-dominant space program has reached a new low point, with orbital launches falling to a level not seen since the ...