Though the Soviet Union may have been famed for its frigid winters, living there throughout the 1970s was a whole lot more than braving sub-zero temperatures. Don't believe us? Just ask the beach ...

To the dissidents of the Soviet Union, that question was so relevant that it became a famous and ironic toast. Supposedly introduced to dissident circles in the early 1970s by Naum Korzhavin, ...

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The hijacking crisis of September 1970 occurred against the backdrop of a decades-long Cold War between the planet's two strongest nations. Although the United States and Soviet Union had begun ...

Drawing on newly declassified documents that reveal the central role of energy in the unraveling of détente, Guy Laron explores how escalating energy crises in the 1970s transformed US-Soviet energy ...

Recently students from University Laboratory High School, in collaboration with Illinois Public Media, released a two-part documentary-style podcast exploring life under the Soviet Union. The podcast, ...

Demonization and crimination of the modernist movement and avant-garde experimentations took place almost in parallel in Germany and the Soviet Union with a reciprocal ... the local modern and the ...

LEONID BREZHNEV (1906-1982): A member of the leadership of the Soviet Union from 1964, initially as first secretary of the Communist Party, then as general secretary. In the early 1970s he emerged ...

Nudel, an accountant, began her activism in the 1970s after her request to emigrate ... Fonda met with Nudel in the Soviet Union and was in Israel in 1987 when Nudel arrived to a hero’s welcome ...