On March 11, 1990, Lithuania became the first Soviet Republic to declare its independence from the Soviet Union. The U.S.S.R.

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.

WATCH: The first woman in space, Valentina Tereshkova, shouted, “Hey, sky, take off your hat; I’m on my way!” Tereshkova’s flight lasted nearly 71 hours. (Soviet Space Pro ...

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 ...

The museum had preserved the history of brutality inflicted by the Soviet Union on its people. It will now focus on Nazi war crimes.

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 ...

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 ...

On December 30, 1922, a new country came into existence. One that would go on to change the lives of millions and alter the path of global history. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) ...

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 ...

Much like Joseph Stalin, the Russian president has used propaganda, the media and government-sanctioned books to present an ahistorical narrative History of Now Richard Cohen - Author, Making History: ...

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 ...