In February 1944, with few signs of the Second World War drawing to a close, the colonial authorities in India – who had ...

July 26 marks 80 years since the 1945 Potsdam Declaration, in which the United States, Britain and China called on Japan to ...

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While they are impossible to measure, emotions such as liking or hatred, admiration or contempt—the quotidian stuff of human ...

From industrial juggernaut to economic disaster, the Soviet Union’s economy tells the dramatic story of a global superpower ...

Recreating the Soviet Union’s rationed food lines will hardly improve the lives of the poor in New York City.

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Everywhere socialism — government-run economic activity — has been tried, it’s failed to meet the people’s needs.

Powers is the son of Francis Gary Powers Sr., the CIA U-2 pilot whose capture by the Soviet Union in 1960 became one of the ...

An Antonov An-24 passenger plane carrying 48 people crashed in Russia's far east as it was preparing to land, killing ...

The 1980 U.S. Men's Olympic Hockey Team achieved a stunning victory against the Soviet Union National Team in the "Miracle on ...