Welcome to the real Soviet Union – primitive, brutal and racist

For most of us in the West, until the fall of the Berlin Wall “Russia” was synonymous with the Soviet Union. Among the 15 ...
San Francisco Examiner

‘Hipsters’ rocks the 1950s Soviet Union

Inspired by the subculture of antiestablishment defiance that arose in the conformist Soviet Union of the mid-1950s, “Hipsters” is of interest both as Russian and rebel history and as a notable ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Soviet Government Asked to Publicly Rehabilitate Artists Killed During 1950s

Renewed appeals were made to the Soviet Government today to permit the re-establishment of Jewish cultural and educational institutions in the USSR and to publicly rehabilitate the Soviet Jewish ...
Heartland

How Lithuania Helped Take Down The Soviet Union

This year, 2016, will mark the twentieth-fifth anniversary of the end of the Soviet Union from the political map of the world. A quarter of a century ago, the menace of Soviet-led communism, which had ...
insider.si.edu

Selected estimates on the Soviet Union, 1950-1959 / editor, Scott A. Koch

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The New York Times

100 Years Since the Birth of the Soviet Union, in Pictures

Communist Party supporters laid flowers at Stalin’s grave in Moscow this month, marking the anniversary of his birth. Credit...Nanna Heitmann for The New York Times Supported by By The New York Times ...