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The Often Misunderstood History of the Soviet Dissidents
Culture / Books & the Arts / In To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause, historian Benjamin Nathans sheds light on how the ...
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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 ...
The Tragic Story Of Laika, The Soviet ‘Canine Cosmonaut’ Who Made Space History In 1957
On November 3rd, 1957, the Soviet Union made history by launching the first living creature into Earth’s orbit: not a human, ...
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The concert where Paul Robeson was warned not to sing in Yiddish
In 1949, the American Communist activist was invited by the Soviet government to give a huge concert in Moscow.