Though the Soviet Union may have been famed for its frigid winters, living there throughout the 1970s was a whole lot more than braving sub-zero temperatures. Don't believe us? Just ask the beach ...

The hijacking crisis of September 1970 occurred against the backdrop of a decades-long Cold War between the planet's two strongest nations. Although the United States and Soviet Union had begun ...

LONDON — Oleg Gordievsky, a Soviet KGB officer agent who helped change the course of the Cold War by covertly passing secrets ...

Drawing on newly declassified documents that reveal the central role of energy in the unraveling of détente, Guy Laron explores how escalating energy crises in the 1970s transformed US-Soviet energy ...

LEONID BREZHNEV (1906-1982): A member of the leadership of the Soviet Union from 1964, initially as first secretary of the Communist Party, then as general secretary. In the early 1970s he emerged ...