From 1925, when the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic was declared a part of the Soviet Union, one photographer was able to capture the “radical social surgery” enacted by the Bolsheviks that forever ...

How the U.S. and the Soviet Union Made Unsuccessful Attempts to Collaborate During the Space Race Could the moon landing have been an international program?

In the history of space exploration, the Soviet Union achieved some remarkable feats, one of which was landing a spacecraft on Venus,something that seemed impossible given the harsh conditions of ...

Compared to contemporaries like the American F-4 Phantom II, the MiG-21 was less complex and far cheaper to produce—but could hold its own against the more sophisticated American jet.

The failed Soviet spacecraft Kosmos 482 has finally returned to Earth after 53 years in orbit. It disappeared into the Indian Ocean early Saturday morning.

The Soviet Union's failed Kosmos 482 Venus probe will fall back to Earth from orbit soon, and it may well make it to the ground in one piece.

A spacecraft launched by the Soviet Union in 1972 is due to come crashing back into Earth's atmosphere around May 10 and nobody knows where it will land.

Kosmos 482: Soviet Union's Failed Venus Probe Is About To Slam Into Earth The spacecraft was designed to survive falling through Venus's atmosphere. 53 years after launch, it's coming back.

A Venus lander launched by the Soviet Union in 1972 has been predicted to fall back to Earth some time in May.

The American attempt to "contain" China as if it were the Soviet Union is not only misguided—it is dangerous.

This means that it was never going to be as easy as many Western observers anticipated to isolate Russia or to convince the post-Soviet states that they would be better off extricating themselves from ...

But what was the Soviet Union really like? What was it like living in the Soviet Union? That same history class probably told you that it was awful, but it's a lot more complicated than that.