On March 11, 1990, Lithuania became the first Soviet Republic to declare its independence from the Soviet Union. The U.S.S.R.

BREVARD COUNTY • CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA – On June 16, 1963, 26-year-old Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to fly in space.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - Oct. 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1 into space, simultaneously launching the USSR and the United States into a space race.

The museum had preserved the history of brutality inflicted by the Soviet Union on its people. It will now focus on Nazi war crimes.

The Soviet Union rejected the idea that it was an empire, but its structure told a different story. Moscow controlled foreign policy, military power, and economies across vast territories. Republics ...

A conversation with Professor Hubertus Jahn on the intellectual consequences of Russia’s war against Ukraine. Interviewers: ...

pt. I. The tsarist period. 1. Russian science before 1800. 2. Science in nineteenth-century Russia. 3. Russian intellectuals and Darwinism -- pt. II. Russian science and a Marxist revolution. 4. The ...

Alternate track title: Standard of Revolt. A musical genealogy of Russia's near century-long struggle to break the tsarist yoke. All songs, save track 7 (Dubinushka), can be found on the flollowing ...

On December 30, 1922, a new country came into existence. One that would go on to change the lives of millions and alter the path of global history. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) ...

Much like Joseph Stalin, the Russian president has used propaganda, the media and government-sanctioned books to present an ahistorical narrative History of Now Richard Cohen - Author, Making History: ...

The Soviet soldiers never saw him. Their artillery failed to kill him. Entire units refused to advance because of his skills. Simo Häyhä killed more enemy combatants than any sniper in recorded ...