List of Soviet Union articles
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TO GO WITH AFP STORY "China-politics-rights-Tiananmen" by Robert Saiget(FILES) This file photo taken on June 2, 1989 shows hundreds of thousands of Chinese gathering around a 10-metre replica of the Statue of Liberty (C), called the Goddess of Democracy, in Tiananmen Square demanding democracy despite martial law in Beijing. Families of those killed in the crushing of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests on June 2, 2010 demanded China end its silence and open a dialogue on the bloodshed. In an annual open letter, 128 members of the Tiananmen Mothers castigated the Communist Party government for ignoring its calls for openness on the crackdown that occurred June 3-4, 1989 and vowed never to give up their fight. (Photo by CATHERINE HENRIETTE/AFP/Getty Images) Could Mikhail Gorbachev Have Saved the Soviet Union?
The Soviet leader is remembered as the man who killed a superpower. But Gorbachev’s gambit on reforms could have worked -- if only he wasn't betrayed by the Communist Party.
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MOSCOW, RUSSIA - MAY 9: In this handout image supplied by Host photo agency / RIA Novosti, a general view during the gala concert held in Red Square to mark the 70th anniversary of Victory in the 1941-1945 Great Patriotic War, May 9, 2015 in Moscow, Russia. The Victory Day parade commemorates the end of World War II in Europe. (Photo by Host photo agency / RIA Novosti via Getty Images) The End of the End of the Cold War
Twenty-five years ago this week, the Soviet Union lost the Cold War. And 25 years later, Russia renegotiated the terms of surrender.
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US Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton waves to the press as she leaves her daughter's apartment building after resting on September 11, 2016 in New York. Clinton departed from a remembrance ceremony on the 15th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks after feeling "overheated," but was later doing "much better," her campaign said. / AFP / Brendan Smialowski (Photo credit should read BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images) Conspiracy Theorists Think Hillary Clinton Has a Body Double. She’s Not Alone.
Does Hillary Clinton have a body double? Well, did Saddam Hussein? What about Joseph Stalin?
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(FILES) A picture taken in Moscow on August 20, 1991 shows a group of Yeltsin supporters, including a Soviet colonel with the Russian flag, walking towards the Russian Parliament, as thousands of Muscovites are gathering around the building to support President of Russian Federation Boris Yeltsin to protest against the toppling of Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev by communist hardliners early on August 19. AFP PHOTO / MICHAEL EVSTAFIEV (Photo credit should read ) Even Vladimir Putin Cannot Kill the Russian Revolution
Twenty-five years after the great revolution that toppled the Soviet regime, the spirit of dignity and freedom still burns.
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ISE, JAPAN - MAY 26: (L to R) U.S. President Barack Obama walks with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on the Ujibashi bridge as they visit at the Ise-Jingu Shrine on May 26, 2016 in Ise, Japan. In the two-day summit, the G7 leaders are scheduled to discuss global issues including counter-terrorism, energy policy, and sustainable development. (Photo by Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images) The U.S. President Who Finally Went to Hiroshima
Why visiting where we dropped an atomic bomb in 1945 is the only way to grasp the depths of human cruelty that transpired there.
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A picture taken on June 3, 1961 shows US President John F. Kennedy (R) smiling with Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev after a meeting at the US embassy in Vienna. AFP PHOTO (Photo credit should read -/AFP/Getty Images) Voices Carry: How Careless Campaign Bombast Can Undo Administrations
It matters not only what you do as a candidate, but also what you say.
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After hosting the Eurovision in 2012 and the European Games in 2015 Baku acts as a picture postcard of the country's newfound prosperity, but also of its contrasts. The country is home to known energy reserves of around a billion barrels of oil and 1.3 trillion cubic meters of natural gas. But if until now Azerbaijan did not have to worry much about paying the bills ? they do now. The slump in global oil prices has put a crimp in the country?s budget. A patient feet in a crude oil bath treatment. Patients comes here to receive crude oil treatment here among other medical treatment. Naftalan, Azerbaijan Aperture: Exit the King
Oil has been a boon in Azerbaijan’s economic growth. But will black gold also cause the country's demise?
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GettyImages-492210552 Ukrainian Ambassador: Soviet Leadership Responsible for Chernobyl’s Victims
In an interview with Foreign Policy, Ukraine’s ambassador decried the Soviet Union’s cover-up of Chernobyl and said limiting the spread of radiation remains a top priority.
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Festival-goers use the toilet at the Glastonbury Festival in Somerset, England, on June 21, 2007. Who Does No. 2 Work For?!
Spying on world leaders’ poop is a whole lot more common than you’d think — and just as useless.
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3rd July 1973: David Bowie performs his final concert as Ziggy Stardust at the Hammersmith Odeon, London. The concert later became known as the Retirement Gig. (Photo by Express/Express/Getty Images) Germany to David Bowie: Thank You for Helping to Bring Down the Berlin Wall
Germany thanked David Bowie for the role his 1987 concert played in bringing down the Berlin Wall.
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Moscow, RUSSIAN FEDERATION: People stand near the grave of Russian former President Boris Yeltsin at Novodevichie cemetery in Moscow, 26 April 2007. Russia bid a solemn farewell 25 April 2007 to Boris Yeltsin, its first post-Soviet leader, in a funeral presided over by some two dozen white-robed priests, with a crowd of dignitaries including President Vladimir Putin and two former US leaders in attendance. AFP PHOTO / VIKTOR DRACHEV (Photo credit should read VIKTOR DRACHEV/AFP/Getty Images) You’ll Soon Be Able to Snapchat and Instagram From Moscow’s Most Famous Cemeteries
Authorities in Moscow announced Thursday that they will be launching free Wi-Fi services in three of the capital's most popular cemeteries.
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Syria1957 Russia Is Repeating Cold War Mistakes in Syria
In 1957, the Soviet Union’s ally Egypt intervened in Syria’s messy politics. It didn’t go well. Why does Putin think this time will be different?
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SEVASTOPOL, CRIMEA - MARCH 18: People celebrate the first anniversary of the signing of the decree on the annexation of the Crimea by the Russian Federation, on March 18, 2014 in Sevastopol, Crimea. Crimea, an internationally recognised Ukrainian territory with special status, was annexed by the Russian Federation on March 18, 2014. The annexation, which has been widely condemned, took place in the aftermath of the Ukranian revolution. (Photo by Alexander Aksakov/Getty Images) Cold War Symbolism: Not Just for the 1950s Anymore
You don't have to be a musty old relic to know that symbolic gestures still have a place in the fight to defend freedom and democracy from Russia.
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plane Things I didn’t know: U.S.-Soviet Cold War shenanigans in Finnish airspace
Two things I learned from one article in the new issue of the Journal of Military History:
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jpeg The battle between CIA and the Pentagon over the state of the Soviets: an excerpt
From The Last Warrior, an intellectual history of the Pentagon thinker Andrew Marshall, which is being released this week.
