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The Often Misunderstood History of the Soviet Dissidents
In To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause, historian Benjamin Nathans sheds light on how the protest movement reinvented itself ...
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The Soviet Union's First Jet Bomber: The Ilyushin Il-28 ‘Beagle'
Making a flyover appearance at the 1950 Soviet May Day parade, the Il-28 went on to become one of the most prolific, reliable, and adaptable bombers in the arsenals of the Soviet Union ...
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"The Future" in the 1950s
In the 1950s, images of the future were tightly ... The Space Race As the Cold War took hold, the United States and the Soviet Union debated the merits of their ways of life -- and raced to ...