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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 ...
Armenian government approves bill to launch EU accession bid
Armenia's government on Thursday gave approval to a bill that calls for the country, once part of the Soviet Union, to launch ...
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 ...
Historian explains how economics research stumbled under Soviet regime, while mathematics thrived
Political and ideological barriers can shape the progress of academic disciplines, warns Ivan Boldyrev. In a paper appearing ...
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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 ...
Foreign Affairs2d
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.
Smithsonian Magazine12d
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 ...
Foreign Affairs2d
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.
The cruelties of the Soviet Union as you’ve never read them before
Karl Schlögel’s dizzyingly excellent essays in The Soviet Century cover everything from the freezing Gulag to communist ...