A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Dec. 30, 1922, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, or USSR, officially came into existence, as leaders ...

Source: Wikipedia). Russia had annexed several independent nations around it to form the USSR after the end of the First World War, WWI to serve as buffers between it and the European powers.

Strange relationships are formed by war, not least that of the USSR and Great Britain in World War Two. The invasion of Russia by Nazi Germany in 1941 shattered their formerly expedient pact and ...

The diversity of conceptual approaches, discourses that were going on between different architects, architectural groups and communities were expanding not only through the newly formed Soviet ...