Wars in Ukraine and in the Middle East are reshaping global politics. In The Dark Side of the Earth, exiled Russian journalist Mikhail Zygar traces the origins of these conflicts to the end of the ...

pt. I. The tsarist period. 1. Russian science before 1800. 2. Science in nineteenth-century Russia. 3. Russian intellectuals and Darwinism -- pt. II. Russian science and a Marxist revolution. 4. The ...

On March 11, 1990, Lithuania became the first Soviet Republic to declare its independence from the Soviet Union. The U.S.S.R. did not accept Lithuania’s independence and imposed an economic blockade ...

But as Mr Morrison shows in his technicolour chronicle of the city, beneath the petro-funded sheen, Moscow is a domain of ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - September 23, 1949. US President Harry S. Truman announces evidence of the USSR’s first nuclear device detonation. ‘A second chance’: Kansas City officers rescue mother dog, ...

The German-American historian Jochen Hellbeck has written an important book. In clear and engaging language and with great empathy for the Soviet people, it deliberately opposes the efforts to ...

May 12, 1957. Race car driver A.J. Foyt nabbed his first pro win in a USAC National midget car race at Olympic Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri. May 11, 1997. Chess champion Garry Casperhoff loses a ...

Simo Häyhä, the Finnish sniper who killed hundreds of Soviets during the Winter War, aiming his rifle while wearing his winter camouflage. (Wikimedia Commons) The Soviet soldiers never saw him. Their ...

Folkways Recordings: FH 5420. "From the recordings of LeRoy Wolins; edited by Louis Manasche; under the supervision of and produced by Moses Asch" -- program notes. Various native performers. Recorded ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - September 23, 1949. US President Harry S. Truman announces evidence of the USSR’s first nuclear device detonation. More This Day in History reports can be found here.