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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

His score of books and hundreds of essays documented Stalinist executions, Communist repressions and censorship, and the transition to post-Soviet Russia. By Robert D. McFadden Roy Medvedev, the ...

On March 11, 1990, Lithuania became the first Soviet Republic to declare its independence from the Soviet Union. The U.S.S.R. did not accept Lithuania’s independence and imposed an economic blockade ...

On Nov. 7, 1944, the convergence of both forces in Central Europe led to the only documented direct combat between American and Soviet forces in history. American P-38 Lightning fighters attacked what ...

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 ...