Smithsonian Magazine

A Cultural History of Soviet Cosmonauts

A new book explores the legacy of the Soviet Union’s human spaceflight program Diane Tedeschi Yuri Gagarin’s status as an icon is evident in Russia’s many memorials for the pioneering cosmonaut, ...
The Nation

The Often Misunderstood History of the Soviet Dissidents

The often misunderstood history of the Soviet dissident movement. In To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause, historian Benjamin Nathans sheds light on how the protest movement reinvented itself at key ...
insider.si.edu

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 ...
The Irish Times

Exit Stalin: The Soviet Union as a Civilization – Accessible history of a new society

This accessible and comprehensive book by Cambridge academic Mark B Smith is the latest in a long list of histories of the Soviet Union. What sets it apart is that the author depicts the USSR after ...
The Conversation

Fall of Khrushchev: 60 years since the ‘most democratic coup’ in Soviet history, how Comrade Nikita was toppled

Tomas Sniegon does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...