lse2 年
The Soviet Union: Domestic, International and Intellectual History
The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev (2007); Vladislav Zubok ... The Man and His Era (W.W.Norton, 2003); Alexei Yurchak, Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More. The Last ...
TASS9 年
Sukhoi combat aircraft: from Soviet bombers to fifth-generation fighter jets
During the Cold War, his major serial combat aircraft included the supersonic Su-7, which became the main Soviet fighter-bomber of the 1960s, and interceptors Su-9 and Su-15. He also pioneered ...
Hackaday8 年
Stolen Tech: The Soviet Shuttle
Yes, some of the hardware and technology will be reused for NASA’s next generation of ... The cold war was a tit-for-tat exercise for the US and Soviet Union. When the Soviets funded the Viet ...
The Atlantic4 年
Reagan and the Russians
When the Soviet Union could no longer afford the competition, its leaders decided to end the Cold War. A modified version of this argument holds that the American military buildup simply worsened ...
BBC5 年
Lithuania convicts Russians of war crimes under Soviet rule
A court in Lithuania has found a former Soviet defence minister guilty of war crimes over a deadly crackdown aimed at stopping the Baltic state breaking away from the USSR in 1991. Marshal Dmitry ...