The banning of Memorial, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate organization, is a qualitative step by the Kremlin to monopolize the ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - September 23, 1949. US President Harry S. Truman announces evidence of the USSR’s first nuclear device detonation. This Day in History: Walt Disney's Laugh-O-Gram Studio ...

Apple TV's "Star City" takes place in a world where the space race never came to an end. A spinoff of "For All Mankind," the ...

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 ...

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 ...

The German-American historian Jochen Hellbeck has written an important book. In clear and engaging language and with great empathy for the Soviet people, it deliberately opposes the efforts to ...

Simo Häyhä, the Finnish sniper who killed hundreds of Soviets during the Winter War, aiming his rifle while wearing his winter camouflage. (Wikimedia Commons) The Soviet soldiers never saw him. Their ...

Folkways Recordings: FH 5420. "From the recordings of LeRoy Wolins; edited by Louis Manasche; under the supervision of and produced by Moses Asch" -- program notes. Various native performers. Recorded ...

In 1964, the Soviet Union launched three cosmonauts into orbit inside a capsule so small they had to diet to fit, stripped of spacesuits and ejection seats to beat America at any cost. What the world ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - September 23, 1949. US President Harry S. Truman announces evidence of the USSR’s first nuclear device detonation. More This Day in History reports can be found here.