From its initial creation in 1922, the Soviet Union was perhaps the most ambitious political experiment in human history. But ...

In 1970, the Soviet Union quietly deployed the first remote controlled rover on the Moon, a machine built for months that survived nearly a year. Lost at the height of the Space Race and rediscovered ...

At the end of the 1980s, protest movements across the Soviet Union sprung up, with people in the constituent republics calling for independence. Fed up with the broken, corrupt Soviet regime and ...