Here's the standard high school history class summary of the Soviet Union: The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was ...

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Rock music was placed under heavy restrictions in the USSR during the Cold War, but, in 1988, the regime allowed Bon Jovi to ...

WITH ruthless ambition, suspense and even spies, hit movie Conclave lays bare the fight to succeed as a new Pope. The ...

In the mid-1960s they even started work on converting the Mil Mi-6 — the USSR’s largest and fastest helicopter — to carry paying passengers. Unfortunately this never got past a single ...

Visitors look at the painting "The signing of the treaty on the formation of the USSR on Dec. 30, 1922, in the Bolshoi Theater" by Stepan Dudnik at the State Central Museum of Contemporary History ...

The complicity of the USSR in the extermination of Jews by the Nazis and in its concealment. On the role of the USSR not only ...

In one corner of the historical center, a St. Petersburg researcher asks an older woman about Jewish song; she responds by softly singing a melody. When a rail-thin, 85-year-old Jewish man enters ...

On this date, Jan. 2, 1959, the Soviet Union launched Luna 1. The probe would pass within 3,725.5 miles of the moon but did not hit the natural satellite due to a failure in the launch vehicle ...

No nuclear bombs have been used as weapons since the attacks on Japan, but thousands of tests have been conducted — primarily by the US and USSR throughout the Cold War. Produced by Alex Kuzoian ...

After all, the USSR was an ally at this time. The Soviets installed governments in a group of countries around themselves for protection and exploitation - a number of Eastern European states were ...

Soviet leader Joseph Stalin wanted a buffer zone of friendly Communist countries to protect the USSR from further attack in the future. However, British Prime Minister Clement Attlee and US ...