In the 2nd half of the 20th century, the USSR became one of the world’s two superpowers.

After the conclusion of the Battle of Kursk in 1943, the Soviets set out to develop new heavy tanks for both the short and ...

Russia’s war in Ukraine has dragged on longer than World War II, with Ukraine achieving unexpected successes at multiple ...

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

The largest investigation of UFOs in the history of the world was launched by the former USSR in the late 1970s and produced ...

BBC Studios announced the launch of The History Bureau, a gripping new podcast that revisits defining stories of our recent ...

By unseating Nicolas Maduro, the US has left even allies like the Philippines fearing a future in which great powers do as ...

Trump has said acquiring Greenland is a national security priority, and that the U.S. must own the island to prevent Russia ...

Three years. 10 months. 18 days.As of January 12, that’s the amount of time that’s elapsed since Russia launched its all-out ...

"Before charging headlong into this icy island again, the U.S. would be remiss not to learn from past failures," argues an ...

International Monetary Fund chief Kristalina Georgieva met with top Ukrainian officials in frosty, snow-covered Kyiv on ...

Asked in December 2025 what the biggest sticking point was in negotiating peace in Ukraine, U.S. President Donald Trump got ...