Soviet Jewish activists were interested in building such a culture because they were striving for a national revolution--through the creation of a new culture in which Jews would be able to identify ...

It turned out that several ministers and academicians, including the USSR Minister of Culture Georgy Alexandrov, were involved in… running a brothel! The victims were young actresses and ...

The Cold War saw the creation of some truly wild and destructive weapons systems. While the United States and the Soviet Union rushed to outdo each other in the nightmarish weapons department, one ...

A nuclear-powered car sounds like something straight out of science fiction, but it was actually something people were ...

This edition of the Lonely Planet guide to the USSR was published just as the Soviet ... the collapse of the communist system of government and the creation of instantly updated sources of ...

He had to train Soviet agents to talk ... He would later, in 1981, instigate the creation of a new KGB special forces unit called Vympel. Drozdov's penchant for "hands-on" work is clear.

It is noted that it was the Soviet government that created the Soviet Ukraine, that is a well-known fact MOSCOW, May 23. /TASS/. Ukraine did not even exist before the emergence of the Ukrainian ...

The Soviet Union was about seven decades old when it collapsed in 1991. Its precise lifespan depends on whether you mark its birth by the Russian Revolution in 1917 or the legal creation of the ...