We can revert to the regressive Cold War nationalism of the space race or continue to move forward with a shared, unified ...

With the dissolution of the Soviet Union came rapid societal shifts. In Georgia, people called for the end of the Russification of their country and their culture.

In 1965, a group of Israeli amateurs shocked the Soviet chess elite, securing a moral victory in the Cold War arena. The ...

Considering the widespread antisemitism today that matches Hitler’s era, Israelis do not take survival for granted.

This lesson details how NASA got from Alan Shepard rocketing into low orbit in 1961 to Neil Armstrong taking "one small step" on the lunar surface in 1969 and today's ...

As the US plans a blockade of the Strait of Hormuz after failed Iran talks, here's a look at how wartime blockades -- from ...

When he came back to Earth, Gagarin was looked upon as not just a hero, but the very embodiment of the Soviet Union’s power.

Innovative, efficient, and sometimes brutal in its engineering methods, the aviation industry in the Soviet Union had a rich ...

Maria Giménez Cavallo and Jo Ann Cavallo explore the fraught relationship between the media, marketing, and government, and the complex implications for truth, power, and propaganda.

The wars of east and west that fused to become the Second World War remade the political map of the world. This is the story of how a world, centuries in the making, was completely remade in a couple ...

Activists at the National Network on Cuba (NNOC) also helped plan the convoy. The NNOC is a coalition of member organizations that include the Soviet-sympathetic Communist Party USA (CPUSA), ...

About a year into my field research in Kazakhstan, I went to the city of Kurchatov, once the secret command center of the ...