The Buran was the Soviet Union’s answer to NASA's Space Shuttle ... This video reveals the Cold War motivations, the technological feats, and the ultimate reasons for its cancellation.

The Soviet Union’s major ally during the first half of the Cold War, the communist-led People’s Republic of China, contributed massive numbers of troops to the conflict in Korea and provided ...

He forged disarmament treaties with Cold War enemies ... to the republics and that the Soviet Union had no further reason to exist. When the Soviet flag was lowered at the Kremlin at the end ...

Aug 30 (Reuters) - Mikhail Gorbachev, who ended the Cold War without bloodshed but failed to prevent the collapse of the Soviet Union, died on Tuesday at the age of 91, hospital officials in ...

The man who oversaw the end of the Cold War and then the end of the Soviet Union has died. NPR's Charles Maynes remembers Mikhail Gorbachev. CHARLES MAYNES, BYLINE: When Mikhail Gorbachev was ...

What was powerfully the case during the Cold War was that study of the Soviet Union by Americans was more often about indictment than about explanation. The way historians in the West conceived of ...

After decades of Cold War tension and ... that abolished the Soviet Union and replaced it with a Commonwealth of Independent States. On Dec. 25, 1991, the red flag was lowered over the Kremlin ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, the final leader of the then-Soviet Union and a reformer who helped end the Cold War and lead his country from communism to capitalism, died Tuesday at 91, according to the Gorb ...