This prelude to our Eastern Front WWII series explores how Stalin reshaped the Soviet Union into a global military force.

Summing up all expenditures for military purposes, the possible size of the military budget of the Soviet Union is determined as shown below. SUMMARY TABLE OF SOVIET MILITARY EXPENDITURES IN 1964 IN ...

NASA focussed on reducing space costs, while the Soviet Union viewed the space shuttle as a potential military threat, wrote Anatoly Zak on his website, RussianSpaceWeb.com.

Although the Mi-8/17 Hip originates from the Soviet Union, there are currently 10 in service of the U.S. Army. The Mi-8/17 is a medium-lift helicopter that serves roles as both a transport and a ...

Russian historian Boris Sokolov in a 2007 review of Western assistance to the Soviet Union wrote: “Without these Western shipments under Lend-Lease the Soviet Union not only would not have been able ...

The Soviet Union is unsurpassed in the art of defense budgetry. ... low-profile military figures neatly match the Kremlin’s current diplomatic stance of a powerful but benign peacemaker.

The military director of the test, Marshall Mitrofan Nedelin, responded with a joke that challenged the role of scientists in the Soviet Union. The point of Nedelin's story was clear to Sakharov.