MY PERESTROIKA follows five ordinary Russians living in extraordinary times: from their sheltered Soviet childhood, to the collapse of the Soviet Union during their teenage years, to the constantly shifting political landscape of post-Soviet Russia. [...]
In 1972, America was chess-obsessed. The Soviet Union used chess to demonstrate its intellectual superiority to the West, but along came a young, lone American, who demolished the Russian masters of the sport. At the [...]
To the United States and the Soviet Union, Afghanistan was always a pawn in a much bigger game. First the Soviets bought them off and then the US sent in arms. The Russians sent in [...]
In the course of human history, no moment was as crucial to the survival of the planet-and the species-as the Cuban Missile Crisis. In the autumn of 1962, President John F. Kennedy received word that [...]
HISTORY™ provides an inside view into the workings of the CIA. Discover a new conspiracy theory between the CIA and Nazi’s as well as the CIA’s secret Airline, originating in W.W II for top missions [...]
For over 25 years Pope John Paul II stood as the most popular pontiff in history, a spiritual compass to almost a billion Catholics worldwide, and a powerful symbol of peace to countless others. Considered [...]