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In Australia daily life and leisure went on as normal ... resolved that he must support his newish ally, the embattled Soviet Union, and he presented it with more than 300 fast aircraft when ...
As a college student in Moscow, I was dazzled by samizdat versions of his works: “One Day in the Life of Ivan ... an account of the Soviet Union’s system of labor camps that is at once ...
This year on May 9, millions of people in the countries of former Soviet Union commemorate ... world and life-changing impact on an ordinary person are reflected in countless books, paintings ...
After a stint as co-chair of Chicago Action for Soviet Jewry from 1978 until 1986, she became the national president of the Union of Councils for Soviet ... trials, prisons, labor camps and family ...
Set during World War II in Stalingrad, Grossman's novel is a paean to Russian courage as well as a devastating portrait of ...
The Soviet Union's planetary missions involved putting vehicles into what's referred to as an Earth parking orbit, or a temporary orbit used during the launch of a spacecraft. From there ...
The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement" by Benjamin Nathans, which covers dissent in the Soviet Union and Russia ...
As Antigua and Barbuda celebrated its 74th Labour Day yesterday, leaders of the People’s Union have called for significant labour reforms and a revitalization of the trade union movement across ...
Kosmos 482 was launched by the Soviet Union in 1972 to travel to Venus and pass through the planet's thick atmosphere. However, an issue with the launch left the spacecraft in limbo orbiting the ...
In the 1975 book “The Abuse of Learning ... universities and use them to advance its ideological agenda. In the Soviet Union, this control was not limited to symbolic gestures – it reshaped ...
Following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the CIA acquired a 250-page KGB report recounting the events that transpired after a platoon fired at a flying saucer over Ukraine. The report ...