Drawing on graph paper with blue grid background and a black outline of the Soviet Union at lower right with rectilinear border added in graphite. Above, four additional representations of the Soviet ...

A Soviet map of San Diego from 1980 (top) shows the buildings at the U.S. Naval Training Center and Marine Corps Recruiting Depot in more detail than does the USGS map published in 1979 (bottom).

Another panelist, political scientist, Sergey Mikhevev, lamented how many students have a poor understanding of the map of the USSR and how Russian territories had changed over the last 100 years ...

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 ...

Mikhail S. Gorbachev, whose rise to power in the Soviet Union set in motion a series of revolutionary changes that transformed the map of Europe and ended the Cold War that had threatened the ...

What seemed impossible to the rest of the world — the fall of the Soviet Union — only took six years under his leadership, a reminder of how temporary political systems can be. IE 11 is not ...

The Soviet Union became a gerontocracy in its final years, contributing to its collapse. Historians say it's a cautionary tale for the US, whose leaders have been in power for decades.

Mikhail Gorbachev, last leader of the Soviet Union, dies at 91 He embarked on a path of radical reform that propelled the communist country toward collapse August 30, 2022 More than 2 years ago ...

The Soviet ruling elite, the nomenklatura, used both cooption and political repression to encourage loyalty to the communist regime. Loyalty was critical both in defusing internal opposition to the ...

The Soviet Union, or USSR, was a state that was formed after the Russian revolution in 1917, and the subsequent three-year civil war. It was founded on a political system of Marxist socialism ...