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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 ...
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 ...
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Jimmy Carter helped dismantle Soviet Union with focus on human rights
Jimmy Carter was a dark horse Democratic presidential candidate with little national recognition when he beat Republican ...
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 ...
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Discover the Story Behind a Legendary Exposé of the Brutality of the Soviet Union
Published on this day in 1973, "The Gulag Archipelago" drew on Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's experiences as a ...
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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.
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Jimmy Carter helped dismantle Soviet Union with focus on human rights
By the late 1970s, the Soviet Union's economy and global influence were weakening. With the counsel of National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski, a Soviet expert, Carter exploited these ...