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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The world’s first supersonic airliner was not the Anglo-French Concorde but a Soviet design intended to show the world the superiority of the USSR. BBC Future has brought you in-depth and rigorous ...

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 ...

The Cooper Union's Foundation Building in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan. (Ajay Suresh/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY 2.0) Addressed to Laura Sparks, president of Cooper Union, and Hayley Eber, ...

Key Points - The Soviet Foxtrot-class (Project 641) was one of the most successful and prolific diesel-electric attack submarine designs of the Cold War, with 74 boats built between 1957 and 1983.