Latvian Filmmaker Who Witnessed Last Days of the Soviet Union Portrayed in ‘Podnieks on Podnieks'

"Podnieks on Podnieks" is the story of a phenomenally influential Latvian documentarian who is remembered by relatively few ...

History Today: How the Soviet Union carried out world's biggest nuclear bomb test

The Soviet Union detonated the most powerful nuclear weapon in the history of humankind, the Tsar Bomba, on October 30, 1961.
Smithsonian Magazine

How the U.S. and the Soviet Union Made Unsuccessful Attempts to Collaborate During the Space Race

Could the moon landing have been an international program? Roger D. Launius President John F. Kennedy and Chairman Nikita Khrushchev during their meeting in Vienna, Austria. National Archives and ...
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Science in Russia and the Soviet Union : a short history / Loren R. Graham

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 ...
The National Interest

The Soviet Union’s Yak-9K Fighter Was Too Powerful for Its Own Design

The Yak-9’s wooden airframe design represents a true engineering marvel—considering that this plane was being deployed against some of Hitler’s most advanced military technology on the Eastern Front.
Opinion
Cleveland Jewish NewsOpinion

The Soviet role in turning anti-Zionism into a popular cause

Soviet-Palestinian propaganda presented anti-Zionism as morally noble, connected it to anti-imperialism and cloaked it in the language of “global peace.”The post The Soviet role in turning anti-Zionis ...
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Sergei Krikalev: A Cosmonaut Left Stranded In Space When The Soviet Union Collapsed

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...