Fitzpatrick, a doyenne of Soviet historians, offers the lay reader a concise, chronological account of the Soviet Union premised on the notion that accidents, rather than inevitabilities, drive human ...

For most of us in the West, until the fall of the Berlin Wall “Russia” was synonymous with the Soviet Union. Among the 15 constituent states of the Communist empire, Russia was always the pre-eminent ...

It was one of the signature moments of the environmental movement, and one of the turning points of global history. A few long-haired men and women afloat in small rubber inflatables on an open ocean ...

The Soviet/Russian space program achieved numerous "firsts" in human spaceflight, including the first human in space (Yuri Gagarin, Vostok 1), the first spacewalk (Alexei Leonov, Voskhod 2), and the ...