From its inception, the Soviet-era aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov was fraught with design complications. Unlike its ...

As the tide turned and the Soviets recaptured lost territory, they saw what the German troops had done to their countrymen and swore revenge. To that end, there were Soviet soldiers, sailors and ...

Yes, there were Soviet troops in North Vietnam, and in significantly larger numbers than their Korean War predecessors. Although the Cold War never turned into a “hot war,” i.e., full-blown World War ...

It already appears evident that the days of Russia serving as its leading arms supplier have come to an ignominious end.

But one utterly random – and utterly crucial – aspect of this resolution was not known until years later through the memoirs of, and interviews with, Soviet sailors. During the crisis ...

Greetings to the Soviet workers, collective farmers, soldiers of the Red Army and sailors of the Red Navy! Greetings from distant Mexico where I found refuge after the Stalinist clique had exiled ...

Valery Sablin, a brilliant young political officer, seized control of the ship by convincing half the officers and all of the sailors to sail to Leningrad, where they would launch a new Russian ...