wikipedia - 19 Aug 2019
The Soviet Union (Russian: Сове́тский Сою́з, tr. Sovetskiy Soyuz [sɐ'vʲetskʲɪj sɐˈjʉs]), officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR; Сою́з Сове́тских Социалисти́ческих Респу́блик (СССР), Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik (SSSR) [sɐˈjus sɐˈvʲɛtskʲɪx sətsɨəlʲɪsˈtʲitɕɪskʲɪx rʲɪˈspublʲɪk] ( listen)) was a socialist state in Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991. It was nominally a supranational union of national republics, but its government and economy were
The New Yorker - 15 Aug 2019
Bathsheba Demuth writes about how the Soviet Union destroyed the economic system and survival practices of the nomadic Chukchi reindeer herders.
ERR News - 20 Aug 2019
On Aug. 20, 1991, an attempted coup by Communist hardliners in Moscow precipitated a succession of events in Estonia that, on the same day, led to a ...
The Moscow Times - 23 Jul 2019
Opinion | Donald Tusk's compulsion to repeatedly stress that liberal democracy is a core European value is an overcompensation for its present fragility.
Daily Signal - 15 Aug 2019
Some 80 years ago, on Aug. 23, 1939, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, formally known as the “Treaty of nonaggression ...
History - 13 Aug 2019
After a period of shunning homework at the turn of the 20th century, the Soviet Union's launch of Sputnik 1 spurred an urgent U.S. focus on schoolchildren's ...
The National Interest Online - 14 Aug 2019
There is little historical question that North Korea's defense industry was not only founded and sustained by direct Soviet military-technological transfers over a ...
Newsweek - 20 Aug 2019
Protesters in Hong Kong are looking to pay homage to a symbolic act of resistance from three decades ago that helped bring down the Soviet Union.
Project Syndicate - 19 Aug 2019
Thirty years ago this month, a series of peaceful demonstrations in Eastern Europe set off a chain of events that culminated in the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Boston.com - 20 Aug 2019
The Washington Post News *Service*. On a breezy summer evening, Tyler Ivanoff took his family on a boat trip to a remote beach in western Alaska. While his ...
NationofChange - 16 Aug 2019
74 years ago by the United States dropped the only two atomic bombs exploded in war on cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Today, recalling those events, ...
Eater - 15 Aug 2019
Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet Union president, endorsed a greasy symbol of American capitalism and global consumerism in an ad that was filmed — but ...
Business Day - 16 Aug 2019
The Russian government wants the country's academics to win back the prestige they used to enjoy in Soviet times — but also to submit to restrictions similar to ...
indy100 - 02 Aug 2019
Donald Trump's knowledge of history hasn't always been the strongest and he was at it again during another bizarre rally on Thursday, this time in Cincinnati, ...
RealClearMarkets - 14 Aug 2019
A frequent theme in this column is one about the fallability of the brilliant. Jeff Bezos regularly acknowledges how often his experiments prove much less than ...
Chabad.org - 19 Aug 2019
Everyone in the Soviet Union knew what to do if you were arrested by the Secret Police: You shut your mouth, averted your gaze and tried to be inconspicuous.
People's World - 19 Aug 2019
As the Communist Party USA's second decade ended, World War II, the greatest war in human history, began. In all major capitalist countries, the mass media ...
Russia Beyond - 28 Jul 2019
The West and the Soviet Union finally got a chance to study each other closely at the World Festival of Youth and Students in Moscow in 1957. There, not only ...
