December 30 marks a curious footnote in Soviet history that sounds almost absurd today: in 1932, Soviet authorities moved to ...

December 30 has witnessed a remarkable range of events throughout history, shaping the course of human civilization in ...

What if everything you thought you knew about Russia was missing its most important piece? In this video, I reveal the secret ...

On December 30, 1922, a new country came into existence. One that would go on to change the lives of millions and alter the ...

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.

Julia Ioffe has created a riveting red history of the Soviet Union through a colourful cast of remarkable women: some of them ...

The often misunderstood history of the Soviet dissident movement. In To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause, historian Benjamin Nathans sheds light on how the protest movement reinvented itself at key ...

Iraq’s former dictator Saddam Hussein was executed on06. Following his capture by US forces in 2003, he was prosecuted by the ...

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 ...

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Between the late ’40s and early ’90s, the United States and Russia had quite a tempestuous relationship. This was the Cold War. Tempers were high, nukes were allegedly armed, and Russia and the United ...