Marking 65 years since Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space on April 12, 1961, his 108-minute Vostok mission, Cold ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - September 23, 1949. US President Harry S. Truman announces evidence of the USSR’s first nuclear device detonation.

On March 11, 1990, Lithuania became the first Soviet Republic to declare its independence from the Soviet Union. The U.S.S.R. did not accept Lithuania’s independence and imposed an economic blockade ...