The Nation

The Often Misunderstood History of the Soviet Dissidents

The often misunderstood history of the Soviet dissident movement. In To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause, historian Benjamin Nathans sheds light on how the protest movement reinvented itself at key ...
Slate

The Soviet Union Killed an Appalling Number of Whales. I Wanted to Know Why.

It was one of the signature moments of the environmental movement, and one of the turning points of global history. A few long-haired men and women afloat in small rubber inflatables on an open ocean ...
Hackaday

Exploring The History Of EPROM In The Soviet Union

An article on the history of EPROMs in the Soviet Union by [Vladimir Yakovlev] over at The CPU Shack Museum caught our attention. It is part one of a series on the topic, and walks you through the ...
The Conversation

This December is the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Soviet Union – how does an empire collapse?

Sheila Fitzpatrick does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...
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What Life in the Soviet Union Was Like

Here's the standard high school history class summary of the Soviet Union: The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a communist state from 1922 to 1991 and was a big rival of the US from ...
Reason

The Uses and Disadvantages of Soviet History for Life

Reason's December special issue marks the 30th anniversary of the collapse of the Soviet Union. This story is part of our exploration of the global legacy of that evil empire, and our effort to be ...
Smithsonian Magazine

A Cultural History of Soviet Cosmonauts

A new book explores the legacy of the Soviet Union’s human spaceflight program Diane Tedeschi Yuri Gagarin’s status as an icon is evident in Russia’s many memorials for the pioneering cosmonaut, ...
The Diplomat

The CCP’s Changing Understanding of the Soviet Union’s Collapse

The war in Ukraine drew attention to the complicated China-Russian relationship. Since the Soviet Union era, Beijing has had mixed sentiments toward Moscow. The Soviet Union was the “big brother” and ...
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 ...
The Conversation

Writing history: 30 years on, a former Moscow correspondent reflects on the end of the USSR

Reader in International Journalism, City St George's, University of London The Soviet anthem hailed the socialist union that it celebrated as “indestructible”. Yet 30 years ago this week, the then ...
Astronomy

A brief history of Soviet and Russian human spaceflight

The Soviet/Russian space program achieved numerous "firsts" in human spaceflight, including the first human in space (Yuri Gagarin, Vostok 1), the first spacewalk (Alexei Leonov, Voskhod 2), and the ...
The New York Times

100 Years Since the Birth of the Soviet Union, in Pictures

Communist Party supporters laid flowers at Stalin’s grave in Moscow this month, marking the anniversary of his birth. Credit...Nanna Heitmann for The New York Times Supported by By The New York Times ...