In December 1991 the leaders of three Soviet Republics - Russia, Ukraine and Belorussia - signed a treaty dissolving the USSR. They did it without asking the other republics, and against the ...

The Soviet Arctic (some of which is south of the Circle) is the Soviet Union’s pioneerland, a vast (2,316,600 sq. mi.), cold, potentially rich region, bigger than the West that lay before the ...

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 ...

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