For about 70 years of its long history, Russia was part of the Soviet Union. Explore before-and-after stories about the country and its people, writers, artists, culture, rulers and worldwide influence.
Russia and the United States race to be the first into space.
The Stalingrad people are recognized for their suffering and heroics and presented with tributes.
Robert Kennedy tells Russia it will take four or five months to remove US missiles from Turkey.
Dostoevsky completes his novel just in time and continues to gamble until he overcomes that addiction; he then focuses on writing novels. He dies soo...
Churchill, Truman, and Stalin plan to meet in the Potsdam suburb of Berlin in July 1945 to determine the political fate of Europe.
Russia sends an unmanned robot to the moon before Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin become the first human beings to walk on the moon.
Dostoevsky's wife and brother die, sending him into a tailspin; he becomes broke and desperate.
After his U-2 plane is shot-down over Soviet territory, Francis Gary Powers must stand trial in Moscow as a spy. Before that, he faces numerous interr...
James Donovan represents Rudolf Abel, an accused Soviet spy, at his trial which takes place in Brooklyn during the fall of 1957.
As Ukrainians starve, the Soviet government covers-up the disaster occurring in Ukraine by selling more and more grain to other countries.
The Bolsheviks change their sharing policies to taking policies not long after consolidating their power.
As he transforms the USSR into an industrial powerhouse, Stalin will pay for his plans with Ukrainian grain.
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