On May 1, 1960, pilot Frances Gary Powers left Pakistan and started his overflight across the Soviet Union. Hours later, Eisenhower was informed that the plane was missing. His worst fears were ...

The United States and the Soviet Union each wanted their own economic and political systems to prevail in the areas their soldiers occupied -- not only in Germany, but also in Eastern Europe and ...

The Soviet Union’s first president believes that the Soviet authorities had underestimated the scale of inter-ethnic problems in the Soviet Union and the need for reforming the country MOSCOW ...

At least 750,000 people were executed and millions deported or imprisoned under Stalin's rule from the 1920s to the 1950s in the Soviet Union. Mr Putin said seeing the era clearly would help ...

Almost from the start of his Democratic administration ... inclined toward more war or defense spending. Meanwhile, the Soviet Union appeared to be at the height of its power, as Moscow fielded ...