Smithsonian Magazine

Soviet Cosmonauts Trained at Star City as They Raced to Beat America to the Moon. Now, a New TV Series Imagines What Happened Behind the Base’s Walls

Apple TV's "Star City" takes place in a world where the space race never came to an end. A spinoff of "For All Mankind," the ...
KCTV News

This Day in History: President Truman announces USSR nuclear detonation

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - September 23, 1949. US President Harry S. Truman announces evidence of the USSR’s first nuclear device detonation. This Day in History: Walt Disney's Laugh-O-Gram Studio ...
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This Day in History: Lithuania became the first Soviet republic to declare its independence

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 ...
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Science in Russia and the Soviet Union : a short history / Loren R. Graham

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 ...