BBC3 个月
Joseph Stalin: National hero or cold-blooded murderer?
He catches small pox aged seven and is left with ... and by the late 1920s he becomes dictator of the Soviet Union. In the late 1920s Stalin instigates a series of five year plans to turn the ...
AOL15 天
15 Countries That Were Once Part of the Soviet Union
The Soviet Union stretched across Asia and Europe and ... digital age while keeping Russia at arm’s length. Latvia is a small nation with big aspirations. It spent centuries under foreign ...
BBC5 年
The desire for reform and domestic pressures
After the shock of Stalin’s death in 1953, a sense of hope enveloped the Soviet Union, bringing a desire for more civil liberties and an end to fear. Nikita Khrushchev emerged as the new ...
Reuters15 天
Russian court jails anti-war Soviet-era dissident for 16 years, prosecutor says
MOSCOW, March 21 (Reuters) - A military court in St Petersburg jailed Soviet-era dissident and anti-war activist Alexander Skobov for 16 years on Friday after convicting him of "justifying ...