Behind the Iron Curtain, the Soviets weren’t just building tanks; they were secretly crafting a sports car meant to rival the ...

A new book raises the specter that corporate offshoring of manufacturing may have undermined America's lead in technological innovation and even its national security.

“You’re next,” said a Russian historian I interviewed in 1993 about the Soviet Union’s collapse in late 1991. I was an American student in St. Petersburg, and he was referring to the ...

Twenty years after the break-up of the Soviet Union, Russia is changing ... and its cultural heritage is veneer-thin. The city’s poor urban environment and the industrial mindset of its ...

This caused major economic problems after the war, but the Soviet Union recouped that loss relatively quickly. 14. Soviet theaters staged the play "Fruits of Revolt" to show how poor people were ...

Even though Central Asia was far from the main battlefields of World War II, it was still tightly bound up in the Soviet ... dealt with poor training and language barriers in the Red Army, while back ...

There are many places in Russia where poor roads ... With the German invasion of the Soviet Union, the plant was transferred east to the town of Irbit in the Ural region. The new plant was known as ...

Unicorns Vinted and Nord Security are based around Vilnius' Cyber City, a former factory site ... Lithuania was forcibly absorbed into the Soviet Union, only gaining its independence in 1990.

Looking at his pay cheque, which has tripled since 2022, Russian factory worker Anton does ... to jobs they last did in the 1990s, when the Soviet Union collapsed, said Natalia Zubarevich, an ...

In the old days, poor relations between individual ... of Chinese society to fight a possible war against the Soviet Union or the United States, Xi was exiled from Beijing to a mining machinery ...

In Krasnodar, in Northern Caucasus, for instance, a factory controller, named Altschuler, who is a Jew, complained that a worker named Prikhodenko was turning out poor work. Prikhodenko turned on ...