James Lloydovich Patterson, who has died aged 91, was a child film star in the USSR who became a Soviet naval officer before ...

The Soviets believed that this attack would only work if the missiles were launched within one minute. If they waited even ...

National Archives and Records Administration The space race between the United States and the Soviet Union stepped up a gear ...

The CIA released nearly 1,500 pages of previously classified documents relating to New York Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and his ...

Celebrated violinist Mikhail Brat’s move to Canada from the former Soviet Union wasn’t just Canada’s gain and that country’s ...

Russia’s 2014 occupation of Crimea should have been a turning point. Instead, it became just another example of Western rhetoric without resolve. President Barack Obama spoke forcefully about ...

A statue of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin was unveiled in the Taganskaya metro station in Moscow in May, recreating a mural that was dismantled decades ago. It is the first such statue to be erected ...

This week on Who What When, we look at the Cold War era with questions about the geopolitical conflict between the United ...