Exit Stalin — reforms and repression in the postwar, pre-collapse USSR

Mark Smith’s impressive history surveys life in the Soviet Union, and its advances and failures from Khrushchev to Gorbachev ...
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Russia fighting Ukraine longer than USSR fought Nazi Germany, Zelensky highlights in address

The full-scale war in Ukraine entered its 1,418th day on Jan. 11, matching the length of Nazi Germany's fight against the ...

The Soviet Union, Part 2 of 2

In the 2nd half of the 20th century, the USSR became one of the world’s two superpowers.
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Jimmy Carter helped dismantle Soviet Union with focus on human rights

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, shown autographing his book "Christmas In Plains" in December 2001, was award the Nobel Peace Prize on Oct. 11, 2002, for his decades of untiring effort to find ...
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My theory about Russian vodka: Drinking culture in the Soviet Union

Why have so many men in Soviet Russia turned to alcohol? Find out in this fascinating video! In this video, I explore why so ...
Wall Street Journal

‘Lost Souls’ Review: The Soviet Union’s Unwilling Returnees

As World War II drew to a close, millions of Russians and other Soviet citizens found themselves outside the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Some were prisoners of war, others civilian forced ...

How the West misjudged Russia’s dissidents and helped shape Putin’s rise as Soviet Union fell

Mikhail Zygar’s latest book revisits the figures who defined the USSR’s last years and the turbulent decades that followed ...
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Science in Russia and the Soviet Union : a short history / Loren R. Graham

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 ...