Ames had been head of the Soviet branch in the CIA's counterintelligence group and gave the Kremlin the names of dozens of ...

For most of us in the West, until the fall of the Berlin Wall “Russia” was synonymous with the Soviet Union. Among the 15 ...

"You're next," said a Russian historian I interviewed in 1993 about the Soviet Union's collapse in late 1991. I was an American student in St. Petersburg, and he was referring to the United States.

Aldrich Ames betrayed the CIA by selling American secrets to the Soviet Union and Russia, resulting in the deaths of at least 10 Western operatives ...

The defeat of Nazi Germany secured Soviet survival but not relief from fear, repression, or sacrifice. This documentary examines what followed victory in 1945, from the expansion of Soviet power into ...

Despite its impressive nature, the Lira-class was in no real way a strategic game-changer for the Soviets in their bid to defeat the West—and its costs were immense. During the Cold War, many radical ...

One "Reagan" feature film actor, a Soviet-era immigrant, said he thought he might have made a mistake coming to the U.S. before President Ronald Reagan took office, citing concerns about the state of ...

From the collapse of the Berlin Wall to the most recent proclamations from Washington's foreign policy think tanks, a persistent illusion has shaped American strategic thinking: the belief that ...

The groundbreaking “Have Blue” design, which ultimately became the F-117 Nighthawk, relied heavily on research conducted by Soviet physicist Pyotr Ufimtsev. The F-117 Nighthawk was the world’s first ...