Gorbachev was known for being more of a lenient ruler of the Soviets. He issued a number of reforms and policies that were much different from his predecessors, including glasnost and the tearing down of the Berlin wall. With these leniencies, the Soviet people were able to express themselves much more fully, especially with film. For years the …
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Until 1992, the Summer and Winter Olympics were still held on the same year. In 1980, the Winter Olympics were held in Lake Placid, New York, while the Summer Olympics were held in Moscow, USSR. The Winter Olympics were famously marked by the US win over the Soviets in hockey, but the Summer Olympics are …
In 1942, the United States had hardly stepped into World War II. The Soviet Union, on the other hand, was getting beat up pretty badly by the Germans. The Nazis were moving hard and fast through Russia, pushing the Red Army further and further back. But one battle showed the that the Soviets were not …
No one thinks of aviation when thinking of Russia. But in the 1930s, flying was all the rage, with explorers adventuring out into the great white north. Each pilot set out to make a name for himself, and including one by the name of Valerii Chkalov. Chkalov entered the Soviet Air Force in 1921, but …
During the famine that plagued Russia during the early 1920s, the relationship between the Church and state was deteriorating. The Bolsheviks hatched a plan to defeat the Orthodox Church in one decisive blow. With the state in a famine, Lenin needed something to help gain support of the peasants that were struggling through this time. …
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The soul of the Revolution has been taken into custody! Read all about it! Father Gapon was a man of the people in Russia during the Revolution of 1905. In fact, it was a well-known fact that the working class loved him. In the New York Times article from January 21, 1905 entitled Czar Menaced By Revolution, …
This image, captured by photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii in the early Twentieth Century, was taken near the current city of Mary in Turkmenistan. It is among ruins of the former city of Merv, which at the time was part of the Russian Empire. The famed ancient city was once the biggest city in the world …
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