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Hace 5 días · Soviet Union (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; U.S.S.R.), former northern Eurasian empire (1917/22–1991) stretching from the Baltic and Black seas to the Pacific Ocean and, in its final years, consisting of 15 Soviet Socialist Republics. The capital was Moscow, then and now the capital of Russia.
Hace 1 día · Mikhail Gorbachev. Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev [f] [g] (2 March 1931 – 30 August 2022) was a Soviet and Russian politician who served as the last leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to the country's dissolution in 1991.
Hace 5 días · Stalin's Usable Past, the latest volume in the Stanford-Hoover series on authoritarianism, has just been published. The book presents a critical edition of the 1937 Short History of the USSR, the landmark textbook edited by Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin at the height of the Great Terror.
Hace 2 días · The material that Sakwa has selected presents a well-knit view of the Soviet Union. This book is clearly orientated towards giving an account of Soviet history that recognises political developments as lying at the heart of the experience of the state and its people.
Hace 1 día · Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov [b] (22 April [ O.S. 10 April] 1870 – 21 January 1924), better known as Vladimir Lenin, [c] was a Russian revolutionary, Soviet politician, and political theorist who was the founder and first leader of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic from 1917 until his death in 1924, and of the Soviet Union from 1922 ...
Hace 2 días · Cold War, the open yet restricted rivalry that developed after World War II between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies. It was waged on political, economic, and propaganda fronts and had only limited recourse to weapons.
Hace 1 día · In the small, unassuming town of Landskrona, in southern Sweden, Dutch photographer Bertien van Manen takes to the stage. Nervously clearing her throat she quietly talks through her work, outlining projects she’s worked on for years, often showing her close family and friends. She cuts a distinctive figure, though – a lean woman, elegant ...
