The congressionally funded broadcaster is both a global information source and an American foreign policy tool. Now, with an ...

The Soviet Union stretched across Asia and Europe and ruled more than 15 republics. Unfortunately, the era of centralized ...

The lemon, now black and shriveled, helped convict Karl Muller, a German spy in Britain during World War I. It was found by ...

In his review of “Crucibles of Power,” Prof. Gary Saul Morson speculates that “Hitler might well have won [his war against the Soviet Union] had he abolished collective farms and allowed ...

In April 1954, Soviet spies Vladimir and Evdokia Petrov, masquerading as Canberra diplomats, defected to Australia. This Cold ...

Henk Rogers, the co-creator behind Tetris, discusses the history of the game, his new book, and the bright future of the ...

A Soviet-era Central Asian pop music anthology shines a light on the region's ethnic diversity and music that transcends ...

As negotiators try to hammer out a partial ceasefire, NPR's Juana Summers talks to Harvard historian Serhii Plokhy about Russia's history of broken promises to Ukraine.

Camp Century was built to store nukes beneath Greenland's ice. See photos of the underground, "Star Wars"-like site.

This week we’re looking at the history of space travel, including the 60th anniversary of the first ever space-walk by Russian cosmonaut Alexei Leonov.

Indian chess legend Viswanathan Anand believes the country has already become a ‘chess superpower,’ drawing comparisons with ...