Soviet rocket design followed a philosophy very different from Western systems. Emphasis was placed on simplicity, volume, and reliability under harsh conditions. Each generation reflected the ...

Clients in Moscow look to restore pieces of furniture passed down from their ancestors, signalling a growing trend of younger Russians re-evaluating their perceptions of Soviet design. I toured the ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia — When hard-line Islamists marched on Indonesia’s parliament to protest what they consider the growing influence of communism, they could hardly have picked a more ironic place to ...

Soviet design was influenced to some extent by early Soviet Constructivism (the beveled glass); by the space race (vacuum cleaners were especially prone to this); by the Western designs of which so ...

After the Communist victory in the Chinese civil war, one of the first new weapons adopted by the People’s Liberation Army was the Type 50, a Chinese copy of the Soviet PPSh-41, with its origins ...

Beauty and Utility: Sociological Issues of Material—Artistic Culture (Moscow: Iskusstvo, 1967) is the first monograph written by the Soviet design critic, philosopher, editor and educator Karl Kantor ...

NASA's Lunar Lander project office has studied a Soviet lunar lander design that has a two-stage powered descent system. The Soviet space programme's single crew lunar lander employed a stage that it ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Sixteen Victor I submarines were commissioned through 1974, all of which retired in 1997 and have since been disposed of. Though they provided a massive generational ...

There's a handful of military planes that, no matter the specifics of their backstory, will always be defined by one incident that secured its place in history books for the rest of time. Whether it's ...