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The Often Misunderstood History of the Soviet Dissidents
In To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause, historian Benjamin Nathans sheds light on how the protest movement reinvented itself ...
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As a new Trump administration begins, I’m looking to this Soviet Jewish dissident for guidance
On Monday, as I listened to President Donald Trump’s inauguration speech, I thought about Alexander Esenin-Volpin. It had ...
Flying4h
Yak-9 Represents a Rare Breed Among Warbirds
Had the Russian version of the P-51 appeared five years earlier, 'I doubt if anyone would ever have heard of the Mustang.' ...
Putin Gets a Snub in the Vast Wine Cellars of a Former Soviet Republic
The Russian president celebrated his 50th birthday at a winery in Moldova. After the invasion of Ukraine, it moved the ...
The Tragic Story Of Laika, The Soviet ‘Canine Cosmonaut’ Who Made Space History In 1957
On November 3rd, 1957, the Soviet Union made history by launching the first living creature into Earth’s orbit: not a human, ...
Queen Elizabeth II wasn't told about Soviet spy in her palace, declassified MI5 files show
Queen Elizabeth II wasn't told details of her long-time art adviser's double life as a Soviet spy because palace officials ...
Queen Elizabeth II was kept in the dark for years about a Soviet spy in the palace
Queen Elizabeth II was not officially informed for nearly a decade that Anthony Blunt was a Soviet spy, newly declassified ...
China 'bigger threat' than Soviet Union and its all America's fault: Marco Rubio at Senate hearing
US President-elect Donald Trump's pick for Secretary of State Marco Rubio during his Senate confirmation hearing said it lies ...
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OTD In Space – January 8: Soviet Union Launches 2nd Lunar Rover
On January 8, 1973, the Soviet Union launched the Luna 21 mission to land a rover on the moon. This was the second time that ...
Poland rethinks offer to repatriate relatives of Soviet era deportees
Programme offering exiled Poles and their descendants residency is under review amid immigration security fears ...
Foreign Affairs13d
From Incarceration to Repatriation: German Prisoners of War in the Soviet Union
Grunewald significantly enhances understandings of the fate of Germans captured by the Soviet Union during World War II.
Foreign Affairs13d
M. N. Pokrovskii and the Origins of Soviet Historiography
White's highly readable biography portrays the life of Mikhail Pokrovskii, a Marxist historian, prominent early-­​twentieth-century Russian revolutionary, and close comrade of Lenin and Trotsky.