Lavrentiy Beria was the leader of the NKVD under Joseph Stalin. To give some perspective, the NKVD was the predecessor to the KGB and it basically was the secret police. It was the premier intelligence agency in the Soviet Union … Continue reading →
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The Space Race and the Promises of the Khrushchev Era
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April 19, 2020 After Khrushchev took power in 1963, there began a steep process of political, cultural and economic reform in Soviet Society. Khrushchev made it a point to denounce Stalin’s dictatorship and so came the beginning of the Thaw, a period of liberalization, relaxation and rehabilitation. Following the era of Stalin, this reform broughtContinue reading “The Space Race and the Promises of the Khrushchev Era”
Who Actually Won the Space Race?
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When examing the Soviet Union during the Nikita Khrushchev era, many people think about the start of the Space Race between the USSR and the USA. The competition dominated the 1960s as both nations wanted to be the first, and, perhaps most powerful, nation in space. Growing up in America, I was always taught and …
Joe 4
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https://dlib-eastview-com.ezproxy.lib.vt.edu/search/simple/doc?pager.offset=1&id=13833946&hl= Hydrogen+Bomb“Hydrogen Bomb.” Seventeen Moments in Soviet History, 5 Oct. 2015, soviethistory.msu.edu/1954-2/hydrogen-bomb/. “Soviet Atomic Program – 1946.” Atomic Heritage Foundation, 5 June 2014, www.atomicheritage.org/history/soviet-atomic-program-1946.
A New Hope…Может Быть?
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Привет друзья! I hope that everyone is staying safe and well! Last time I ended on kind of a hopeful note from with a quote from Freeze about why the Soviet people fought in WWII, which stated, “Revulsion from the barbarism of the Nazis was certainly one motivation. On a deeper level, however, there …
Khrushchev’s Crops and Cows
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If you were a politician during the reign of Stalin, Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev would be no stranger to you. Khrushchev was a heavy advocate for agricultural reform during Stalin’s reign. It was well known that Khrushchev did not agree with the way Stalin was handling the economy. Khrushchev thought that too much money was being spentContinue reading “Khrushchev’s Crops and Cows”
What’s a Woman to Think? That She Doesn’t Have Time for Anything.
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“It was morning—the beginning of another day which, just like hundreds of days before it and thousands of days to come, would be filled with the bitterness and boredom of endless, terribly petty and soul-destroying work, all the things which filled the life of a housewife, the life of millions and millions of women.” (Fadeev)Continue reading “What’s a Woman to Think? That She Doesn’t Have Time for Anything.”
Kyshtym-zilla
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In 1957, there was a nuclear disaster in a city called Cheliabinsk-40 in the Ural Mountains of the Soviet Union, the blow came from an underground tank filled with radioactive waste. The “Kyshtym Disaster” is the third biggest nuclear disaster in history, according to the International Nuclear Event Scale, behind the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster … Continue reading Kyshtym-zilla →
How A Chunk of Metal Pushed the Soviet Union Into A New Era
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In the wake of The Great Patriotic War, the Soviet Union needed a leader that would rebuild the state from the remnants that were left when the war ended. Khrushchev was the one who stepped up and seemingly forced himself to step into the role Stalin once occupied. However, he was not keen on taking […]
The Man of Steel Falls and The Union is Reborn
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Joseph Stalin was by all accounts a brutal dictator who is responsible for millions of deaths and brought about an era of fear. His ideology of “Stalinism” was one of centralized power where the state controlled all. He purged all those who opposed him or those who he saw as a threat. He had aContinue reading “The Man of Steel Falls and The Union is Reborn”
