On March 11, 1990, Lithuania became the first Soviet Republic to declare its independence from the Soviet Union. The U.S.S.R.

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 ...

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 ...

WATCH: The first woman in space, Valentina Tereshkova, shouted, “Hey, sky, take off your hat; I’m on my way!” Tereshkova’s flight lasted nearly 71 hours. (Soviet Space Pro ...

On December 30, 1922, a new country came into existence. One that would go on to change the lives of millions and alter the path of global history. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) ...

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

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 ...

Putin will lay flowers at the Soviet pilots’ section of Fort Richardson National Cemetery after his Alaska summit with Trump. The graves are tied to the WWII Lend-Lease Program, when U.S. and Soviet ...