Was the end of the USSR inevitable — or the result of human decisions? This video dissects the economic decay, political paralysis, and personal choices that brought down one of history’s superpowers.
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 ...
After winning the Nobel Prize for her searing portraits of the Soviet world unraveling, Svetlana Alexievich worries about the ...
The Cuban Missile Crisis was a major confrontation that brought the United States, and the Soviet Union close to war over 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 ...
On October 4, 1957, the erstwhile Soviet Union sent Sputnik-1 into outer space. The launch of the world’s first artificial ...
From 1975: Washington’s wheat growers were “frustrated and angry” over Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz’s proposal to withhold shipments of grain to the Soviet Union. One local wheat grower said ...