These narratives explored projects of different scales, uses, and contexts, revealing everything from religious buildings, to remarkable examples of adaptive reuse of old industrial structures ...

The legacy of Jimmy Carter's administration includes key roles in countering the Soviets and Islamist extremists in the ...

Gorbachev realised the Soviet Union had to be changed, but the way he did it ensured it would come crashing down. The Marxist-Leninist system was destroyed, the old Soviet empire broke up and the ...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn in West Germany following his deportation from the Soviet Union in February 1974 Public ... arrested the 26-year-old, who had been decorated for heroism in battle and ...

Oil is supply constrained. Production of oil in the former Soviet Union countries (which comes overwhelmingly from old fields) has been declining owing to poor production practices and low investment.

In 1987, the audacious flight of a West German teenager, Matthias Rust, exposed critical vulnerabilities in the Soviet Union’s air defenses when he landed a Cessna 172 in Moscow’s Red Square.