The title of Elena Gorokhova's new memoir, "A Mountain of Crumbs," about growing up in the Soviet Union in the 1960s and '70s, comes from a game her grandmother invented to hide that she had almost no ...

The Yak-9K was essential for the Soviet Air Force’s mission to regain air superiority over the German Luftwaffe during key battles, such as Kursk in 1943. Armed with a 45mm NS-45 cannon, a reliable VK ...

Every year, our family celebrates the day we arrived in America from the Soviet Union. July 20 is the date our family was free. It has always been important to me to acknowledge how differently my ...

Let us paint the scene for you. The day is September 1st, 1939, in the Soviet Union, and you're a middle-management engineer working at the Kharkiv Locomotive Factory in Ukraine. While a particular ...

Throughout its brief but interesting life, the Progvev-T encountered numerous problems that ultimately doomed this gonzo idea to obscurity. The Cold War was a time of extreme experiments when it came ...

Regarding “‘Disastrous’: A shaken Texas House prepares for rightward shift after record GOP primary upsets,” (March 7): Life was simpler when we had the Soviet Union to kick around. And we never knew ...

MOSCOW (AP) — Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess champion who lost his title to American Bobby Fischer in a legendary 1972 match that became a proxy for Cold War rivalries, died Thursday in ...

Thirty-three years ago, the Soviet Union collapsed, sending political ripples and millions of migrants around the world. Germany took in some 200,000 Jews, and they brought traditions from home, ...