Where the Donbas meets the Dnipro River, the USSR built out a dense range of massive factories, using the local coal and ...

The Village Voice looks at "phantom utopias," lies told by today's despots to conjure memories of great autocratic times that never existed.

After three years of war, the Putin regime is increasingly unable to control its explosive social consequences, which have ...

Host Scott Yoo, violinist and conductor of the Mexico City Philharmonic, returns to travel the world investigating some of the greatest ... After the fall of the Soviet Union, America stood ...

The reduction in U.S. operations in the Middle East and the sequester mean this figure is likely to fall again in 2014 ... After the collapse of the Soviet Union, democracies accounted for ...

Taking the world as a whole, the fall in exports (setting aside purely statistical differences ... becoming an increasingly powerful factor in raising mankind’s standard of living. Only because of an ...

said Bush's call to go to Mars ultimately went unfulfilled while peace spread throughout Europe in 1989 as the Soviet Union collapsed. "By losing the perceived threat, we lost the motivation," he ...

And it would seem the height of folly for the Soviet Union to attack the United States directly and ... and this is the crucial factor in determining willingness to engage in a general war. The ...