Russian parents have expressed their anger at the news that Soviet-era basic military training will be reinstated in high schools amidst the war in Ukraine. The so-called "initial military training" ...

Whatever else can be said about Soviet education, it serves the Communist purpose more efficiently each year. Last week Nicholas DeWitt, of Harvard’s Russian Research Center, shed fresh light on a ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! This 1960 Central Intelligence Agency film opens with a description of a small town and the students who live there. Reel America is an American ...

MOSCOW (AP) — A Soviet-era military support organization said Monday it wants to reclaim its past role training youths for Russia's armed forces, which have been plagued by draft dodging, cadet abuse ...

On July 27, 1962, two Russian cosmonauts boarded a Soviet airliner and experienced weightlessness without going to space. This was the first time cosmonauts completed zero-G training on an airplane.

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, and Soviet leader Josef Stalin at the Yalta Conference, Feb. 9, 1945. Credit: UK National Archives Eight decadess ago, on ...