During the Cold War, American and Soviet scientists embarked on an unprecedented quest to contact extraterrestrials. But ...

A controversial memoir of a Finnish woman who migrated to Stalin’s Soviet Russia in the 1930s and escaped in 1941. Ninety ...

Here's the standard high school history class summary of the Soviet Union: The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a communist state from 1922 to 1991 and was a big rival of the US from ...

After a grueling escape from Hungary following the 1956 Soviet invasion ... of historical fiction based loosely on the “secret life” of the author’s friend Vivie Babb.

To compensate for the considerable advantages the F-4 Phantoms had over MiG-21s, the North Vietnamese developed innovative hit-and-run tactics.

Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev issued a series of reforms and the Communist Party gave up its 70-year monopoly of political power in the Soviet Union.

Mark Shterenberg, who instilled in his family his core values of hard work and a good education, worked at JPL and Hughes Aircraft. He was 80.

Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov won a world championship title together in pairs skating in 1994 and narrowly missed out ...