The Soviet Union, or USSR, was a state that was formed after the Russian revolution in 1917, and the subsequent three-year civil war. It was founded on a political system of Marxist socialism ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, General Secretary, March 11, 1985 - March 14, 1990 and President of the Soviet Union March 14, 1990 - December 25, 1991. What does the USSR stand for? The USSR stands for the Union ...

In the aftermath of the U.S. government’s military strikes against Iran’s nuclear facilities, it is easy to assume that Iran ...

Lloyd Patterson, who soon joined the Communist Party, remained in the Soviet Union. As he explained to the Chicago Defender, a Black newspaper, the country gave Black artists “opportunities and ...

National Archives and Records Administration The space race between the United States and the Soviet Union stepped up a gear on May 25, 1961, when American President John F. Kennedy announced that his ...

This was the Soviet Union in the 1960s. While many of my American Jewish friends are bewildered by the eruption of antisemitism masquerading as “anti-Zionism” since October 7, those of us who ...

In 1972, the Soviet Union launched a pair of space probes destined for Venus.While the USSR’s Venera 8 successfully reached its destination, a malfunctioning Soyuz rocket ensured its sibling ...

THE SOVIET Union was a brutal regime fronted by dangerous, power-hungry madmen who ruled with a vice-like grip. Sound familiar? Vladimir Putin has never been coy about his Soviet nostalgia – … ...