The Palace of the Soviets is the most famous and grandiose of the unrealized projects of the Soviet government. Conceived in the early 1920s, it was supposed to become the main building and a ...

Boris Iofan’s winning proposal for Palace of the Soviets. Image Courtesy of Arkadi Mordvinov, Vyacheslav K. Oltarzhevsky/Tchoban Foundation From the famous Kitchen Debate between Nikita ...

The United States’ involvement in Afghanistan is growing deeper and more costly–30 US soldiers have died there since the start of July, making it the deadliest month since the US invasion in ...

The shortage of oil and seafood is the least of America's concerns in Collin Sullivan's "William H. Seward vs. the Soviet Super-Men," a new time-traveling alternate-history comedy taking place ...

What if history had taken a darker turn and the Soviet Union had allied with Nazi Germany in World War II? In this final part of the series, we explore whether the development and use of nuclear ...

THIS Soviet Palace was set to become one of the biggest landmarks in the world – until its engineers were sent into combat. Plans for the megastructure envisioned a 1,335ft beast of a buildin… ...

Essentially, For All Mankind is an alternate history where the major point of departure is that in 1969 the Soviets managed to land a cosmonaut on the moon before the Americans did.

Russian President Vladimir Putin pays his respects at the coffin of former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev in Moscow on Sept. 1. (TV pool/AP) Alternate history is enjoying a modest revival. The ...

While the US scrambles to get its act together, the Soviets land on the moon for a second time. On 1960s TV sets we see a cosmonaut standing on the lunar surface. Then up comes their mirror visor ...

We speculate on various aspects of Wolfenstein: The New Order's alternate- history setting. What do you think the Nazi-controlled 1960s have in store?

Set 15 years after a version of WWII won by the Axis alliance, The Man in the High Castle is often the first title to come up when discussing alt-history. Interestingly, it’s also an alternate ...