1991 Soviet coup attempt
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In August 1991, hardliners of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union attempted to forcibly seize control of the country from Mikhail Gorbachev, who was Soviet president and General Secretary of the C
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Thursday morning on Smolenskaya
Soviet Union
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The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from its formation in 1922 until its dissolution in 1991. It was the w
Landscape near Karabash, Chelyabinsk Oblast, an area that was previously covered with forests until acid rainfall from a nearby copper smelter killed all vegetation
One of the many impacts of the approach to the environment in the USSR and post-Soviet states is the Aral Sea. (See status in 1989 and 2014)
Military parade on the Red Square in Moscow, 7 November 1964
The Grand Kremlin Palace, the seat of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union, 1982