| 单词 | Soviet Union |
| 例句 | He also studied the games of Mark Taimanov, the 1956 champion of the Soviet Union—and a concert pianist—who introduced novelties in opening play that Fischer found instructive. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z There’s a rumor the Soviet Union’s feeding the Argentinians satellite pictures of our fleet, which is why they always know where to find us. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z For most of his adult life, Harry Gold had been a spy for the Soviet Union. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The two men had recently been to the Soviet Union, where the talk was that the Russians were considering sending a woman into space. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z The Soviet Union, and all the world, was at war. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z And it was a wonderful chance for Marina to use her new navigation skills over the enormous distances of the Soviet Union. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z For years Soviet grandmasters had competed only against one another, ensuring that the championship would remain in the hands of the Soviet Union. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The Soviet Union’s “women flyers” had made appearances in the American media since the 1930s. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Her commander wrote a recommendation for her to be posthumously honored as a Hero of the Soviet Union. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z By the time Penkovsky passed his letter to the American students, the American spy agency had been almost totally shut out of the Soviet Union. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “I shared the general sympathy for our allies, the Soviet Union,” Hall explained. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Black dropped by Gold’s rented room often to lecture his new friend about Communism and the Soviet Union. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z When Marina was able to speak to her daughter, Tanya, on the telephone from the Far East, the call was broadcast by radio throughout the Soviet Union. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z The weapons establishments in the Soviet Union, the United States and other nations are large and powerful. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Anyone who came of age in the Soviet Union during the 1930s was not going to let class awareness affect her commitment to the urgent demands of war. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z “From there you can go to the Soviet Union.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The last hurrah for the two aging warriors was sounded during a marathon session of the National Security Council on January 6, 1958, when Stassen proposed a new framework for talks with the Soviet Union. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Many nations understand that the systematic murder of such intelligent creatures is monstrous, but the traffic continues, promoted chiefly by Japan, Norway and the Soviet Union. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z You might think that being involved in the Soviet Union’s great aviation achievements would help protect you from being accused of treachery, but you’d be wrong. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z It was a poor country, in part because the United States maintained its trade embargo, and because the Soviet Union, once it collapsed in the late eighties, no longer provided financial subsidies. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z The bags also contained simple items not readily available in the Soviet Union—including toothpaste. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z How could the people who owned such rich farms, such beautiful furniture and gardens, modern bathrooms, and electricity to run refrigerators have ever needed to come take over the Soviet Union’s peasant huts? A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z All three women were awarded the Soviet Union’s Order of Lenin honor for their achievement. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z “You've drawn your father and his friends mocking the leader of the Soviet Union! Are there others?” he asked. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z “The association,” Rachael said, “wanted to reach the bounty hunters here and in the Soviet Union. This seemed to work...for reasons which we do not fully understand. Our limitation again, I guess.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z By the ninth decade of the twentieth century the strategic missile and bomber forces of the Soviet Union and the United States were aiming warheads at over 15,000 designated targets. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But in the Soviet Union in the 1930s, the pressure to belong was literally a matter of life and death. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z As the relationship between America and the Soviet Union soured overseas, more and more Americans tended to agree with him. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Six months behind the Soviet Union, the United States had also entered World War II. The two huge nations, so different from each other, were allied against Germany. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z “There is something that would be very helpful to the Soviet Union, and something in which you can take pride.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z In the midst of all this, the young women who wanted to fly for the Soviet Union had to travel in to Moscow before they traveled out. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z The United States and the Soviet Union were, officially, allies in August 1945. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Bobby’s last game of the tournament was with Gligoric, one of the strongest players outside of the Soviet Union. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z In 1985, however, things took a dramatic turn when Mikhail Gorbachev became head of the Soviet Union. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z In the Soviet Union men were being shot for Trotskyism. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The United States and Soviet Union had never been friendly, and nothing had really changed. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Marina Raskova probably didn’t think of herself as “having it all”; she was a hard worker, but in the Soviet Union of the 1930s, so was everybody else. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z The Soviet Union’s head of state and a close colleague of Stalin’s, Chairman Mikhail Kalinin, gave a speech in July 1945 addressed to the “Glorious Daughters of the Soviet People.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z She wasn’t reaching out to airwomen in particular, but she was certainly including them, as she urged the youth of the Soviet Union to fight for their Motherland. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z An independent Vietnam might ally itself with the Soviet Union. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The thirteen days that followed became known in the United States as the "Cuban Missile Crisis" and in the Soviet Union as the "Caribbean Crisis." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The only thing that rivaled Americans’ fear of the Soviet Union’s incipient prowess in the heavens was their wounded national pride. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The Soviet Union sent technicians and planes to Nigeria, thrilled at the chance to influence Africa without offending America or Britain. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “Look, you fool,” Sam said, laughing, “what the Soviet Union needs more than anything in the world is time, precious time.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z That’s what the Soviet Union was facing and fighting: destruction on that scale. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z In reality, the United States wasn’t trailing the Soviet Union quite as badly as it appeared in the wake of the Sputnik crisis. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z North Vietnam had a communist government, allied with the Soviet Union and China. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z I used to lie awake nights wondering what would happen to me if I lived in the Soviet Union. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z These were run by the Communist League of Youth, or Komsomol, which sponsored clubs called Osoaviakhim that gave military training to the Soviet Union’s young people. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Hermann Muller—disappointed by another false utopia—left Berlin for the Soviet Union, on yet another quest to unite science and socialism. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Perhaps the most striking illustration is to be found in the cooperation between Great Britain, the United States of America and the Soviet Union in the fight against Hider. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z President Truman had announced that an “atomic explosion’’ had been detected in the Soviet Union. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Since Yuri Gagarin had flown into space, he was often called on to speak in public and represent the Soviet Union. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z The Rosenberg trial was all the evidence many citizens needed that their country had been infiltrated by radicalized agents of the Soviet Union. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The plane dubbed "the black lady of espionage" by the Soviets revved its engines and started on a 3,788-mile arc over the Soviet Union to a secret base in Bodo, Norway. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z On December 26, 1991, Gorbachev took his final, dramatic step when he resigned and declared that the Soviet Union was dissolved and that the countries within its umbrella, including Russia, were now independent. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z She had been unmasked as a CIA operative, thereby rendering her useless as an undercover agent in the Soviet Union. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z At the border post separating the Soviet Union from Finland, Gordievsky lay motionless, covered with a heavy blanket. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The Soviet Union controlled East Germany, where it installed a Communist government under a dictatorship. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z The Soviet Union’s first atomic bomb exploded with the force of twenty thousand tons of TNT. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z By now, one in every three or four pilots in the Soviet Union was a woman. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z So when Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, the agendas of Stalin and his composers were abruptly realigned. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z By that time, the Soviet Union had dissolved, and the largest of its republics became the country of Russia once again. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z He detested the Slavic people of eastern Europe with a murderous racist hatred similar to what he felt for Jewish people, and was greedily eyeing the Soviet Union’s enormous agricultural areas, such as Ukraine. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Some pundits, not just from the Soviet Union, were forecasting Tal to be the winner. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Stalin, who led the Soviet Union until 1953, was a cruel dictator who ruled by terror. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Of all the Communist leaders deposed in the years bracketing the collapse of the Soviet Union, only Nicolae Ceaujescu met a violent death. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z In our day the Soviet Union disintegrated after drought caused a series of bad harvests in the 1970s and 1980s, but nobody argues that climate ended Communist rule. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Over weeks of secret interviews, Blake and the KGB came to an agreement: He would provide the Soviet Union with information about any MI6 espionage operations, whether against Russia or its allies. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Chambers made a stunning accusation that day: He charged a man named Alger Hiss, one of Washington's most respected government officials, with spying for the Soviet Union. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The United States was siding with West Pakistan, the Soviet Union with India and what was soon to be Bangladesh. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z "It was a catalogue of virtually every CIA asset within the Soviet Union," Cherkashin said. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Field tests are being made in several countries: in France and Germany against larvae of the cabbage butterfly, in Yugoslavia against the fall webworm, in the Soviet Union against a tent caterpillar. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Ivanov went to see George Eltenton, a chemical engineer known to be sympathetic to the Soviet Union. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z In the Soviet Union in the 1930s, left-wing scientists and intellectuals proposed that nothing about heredity was inherent at all. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z "I was able to get a look at every blade of grass in the Soviet Union," CIA director Allen Dulles said. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Like actors on a stage, new CIA agents posted to the Soviet Union played carefully crafted roles. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z On December 25, 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as the last leader of the Soviet Union. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The collapse of the Soviet Union had meant the deterioration of its public health policy. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z The Soviet Union and the United States were allies in World War II. But that’s because they were fighting common enemies—not because they liked each other. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Gerber was director of operations in the Soviet Union and Europe, the man in charge of all the Agency's spies in those areas. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Then, in May, the Soviet Union orbited Sputnik III, weighing in at a whopping 2,925 pounds. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Spassky’s defense of his title became, symbolically, a defense of the Soviet Union, and the Russian’s millstone was a heavy weight to bear. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “I think the various police agencies here and in the Soviet Union have gotten them all. The population is small enough now; everyone, sooner or later, runs into a random checkpoint.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Other episodes of mass fatality are abundantly documented: the Black Death in Europe, the post-collectivization famine in the Soviet Union, even the traffic in African slaves. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He cited the conclusion of Lawrence and Teller that “several score of inspection stations would be required to monitor testing in the Soviet Union,” not the dozen or so proposed by Stassen. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Nancy was organizing a squadron of women who could fly aircraft to the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union through the Lend-Lease program. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z In May 1949, Stalin capitulated, and the Soviet Union suspended its blockade. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The Explorer and Sputnik programs continued with scientific exploration, although both the United States and the Soviet Union still had the occasional failure. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z Girls and boys growing up in the Soviet Union of the 1920s and 1930s, like Marina Raskova, felt that preparing for war was their duty, just like going to school. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Gold was never to attend Communist meetings, never to read Communist papers, never to express even the slightest interest in the Soviet Union. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Most of the western Soviet Union was in German hands, but its largest cities still hadn’t fallen, and the Red Army was still fighting. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z The young women of the Soviet Union who fought in World War II clung to their feminine identity with consistent determination, and if one single item could represent this individual battle, it’s underwear. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Knowing what the enemy was up to became the essential task of America and the Soviet Union—and the key to the world's survival. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The main problem, Ernest concluded, was the difficulty of tracking fissionable material in the Soviet Union to ensure that it was not finding its way into weapons. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z In the late 1940s, the United States had no spies in the Soviet Union. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z But she would quickly learn that there was even more to Timmy than a lifetime of exploits on behalf of the Soviet Union. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z He wanted the CIA to pass him instructions for how to give them a large package, containing information on every known missile or rocket inside the Soviet Union. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Gold knew only the basics: Communists had taken over Russia in a recent revolution and renamed the country the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, or Soviet Union. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The Germans had stormed in like lightning in a single month in 1941: it took the Soviet Union three and a half years to push them out again. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z To honor his promise to defend Poland, British prime minister Neville Chamberlain turned to the Soviet Union. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Ever since Reagan's election, the United States and the Soviet Union had been moving further apart, not closer together. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Seventeen days after Germany had invaded Poland from the west, the Soviet Union had invaded from the east. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z No country, and certainly not one as vast and as aggressive as the new Soviet Union—nor one so close to Germany—was going to be without an air force. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z To the Soviet Union, which had been left out of the Munich Agreement, the rate at which Germany was gobbling up European territory was seriously alarming. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z He claimed that Hiss had passed these to him several years earlier, as part of their conspiracy to provide information to the Soviet Union. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z In July 1975, the United States and the Soviet Union had their first joint mission—a Soviet Soyuz capsule docked with a US Apollo module. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z Eventually, after some speech making about the contribution of chess toward a possible détente between the Soviet Union and the United States, play got under way. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z It might have been a strategic move by Stalin to keep a close eye on all the Soviet Union’s top aviation specialists. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z And the Soviet Union, Germany’s geographic neighbor, was very worried about it. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z But each month, new agents posing as businesspeople, diplomats, professors, and other unassuming characters quietly joined the fight against the Soviet Union. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z It wasn’t until the sixth round, at which point Bobby had barely compiled an even score, that he was tested by one of the true greats of the game, David Bronstein of the Soviet Union. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The CIA had broken through the wall of secrecy around the Soviet Union at last. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z If America wanted to understand the USSR's latest ploy in the arms race, they needed someone on the ground, in the Soviet Union itself. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z As Harvey settled into the house in Dahlem, the Cold War between America and the Soviet Union threatened to break into open hostility. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z But the 1936 Constitution of the Soviet Union “guaranteed” a multitude of rights it didn’t always deliver on, and a line on paper didn’t suddenly make everyone’s ideas shift from their old tracks. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z On May 5, 1990, nearly fifty years after Lilya’s disappearance, Soviet Chairman Mikhail Gorbachev signed a decree honoring her as a Hero of the Soviet Union. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Fuchs told Gold he was proud to be helping the Soviet Union. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z But then the Voigt Empathy Test had been devised by the Pavlov Institute working in the Soviet Union. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z The soldiers who fought this war between America and the Soviet Union maneuvered in secret, often alone, working in the shadows of Berlin, Moscow, and Washington. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z After the country sent two women into space on three different spaceflights, one might assume that gender barriers in space were a thing of the past for the Soviet Union. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z Many American newspapers carried the story, praising the brave commanding woman who’d flown for the Soviet Union, allied with the United States against the Nazis. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Encouraged by the warm weather, Hitler decided to try attacking the Soviet Union from the south. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Yes, the United States was helping the Soviet Union—but not out of the kindness of its heart. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z If you were a young person in the Soviet Union in the 1930s, you were unable to separate your fear of Stalin and his henchmen from your genuine patriotic fervor for your Motherland. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z The National Party accepted the most hidebound of 1950s cold war ideology and regarded the Soviet Union as the evil empire and communism as the work of the devil. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z This chess magazine contained theoretical articles and reports on the latest games from around the world, mostly games involving players from the Soviet Union. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Starting in the 1980s, the Soviet Union was facing economic and political upheaval. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z Also, once the United States entered the war, there was a real surge of support for their ally, the Soviet Union. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z But President Eisenhower had insisted that the nation’s first foray into space be presented as a peaceful effort, rather than an explicitly military operation that risked triggering a dangerous retaliation by the Soviet Union. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z But it seemed likely that American Communists might feel allegiance to the Soviet Union. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z After all, soon after Germany attacked the Soviet Union, the United States began shipping planes, tanks, cannons, and food to the desperate Soviets. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Now Groves was determined to keep the Soviet Union from getting it. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z When the Soviet Union collapsed, the subsidies ended, and North Korea’s centrally planned economy stopped functioning. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z She spent the next two years as a courier, go-between, and manager of World Tourists, Inc., a travel business run by Golos that was actually a front operation for the Soviet Union. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z After World War II, a “cold war” had begun between the democratic United States and the Communist Soviet Union. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z The United States embraced democracy, while the Soviet Union was ruled by communism. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z When the Soviet Union began making plans to send a man into space, space industry leaders knew they needed a special cosmonaut training facility. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z The next day, the Soviet Union itself was dissolved. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z In the early hours of the morning on June 22, 1941, the German forces hurled themselves at the Soviet Union. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z The Soviet Union believed that Germany should pay for starting the war and for causing such horrific damage to other countries. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z This would be a tough posting for any young CIA officer, let alone the first female field agent ever sent to spy against the Soviet Union. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z He did not feel defeated by the end of the Soviet Union; he felt emboldened by it. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z Both had been sympathetic to the Soviet Union, and members of the Communist Party. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z A new race to build nuclear weapons pushed America and the Soviet Union toward a standoff that threatened not just the two superpowers but the entire world. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z As hostility between the United States and the Soviet Union increased, it began to feel like a probability. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Gold enjoyed these talks and even felt comfortable enough to bring up his concerns about the Soviet Union, including Stalin’s treaty with Adolf Hitler. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Six years passed before Gordievsky's family could leave the Soviet Union. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The next year, the Soviet Union launched the first woman into space, Valentina Tereshkova. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z However, those firsts would pale in comparison with Johnson's new assignment: The president wanted a plane that could fly high enough to avoid Soviet radar, and far enough to cross the Soviet Union without refueling. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z In their eyes, the Soviet Union seemed to be a new, more equitable model, a beacon for a more hopeful future. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Egged on by HUAC, Americans now sensed that the Soviet Union might have agents anywhere—even in the US government itself. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Together, the vengeful young duo fights to stamp out Nazi aggression in the Soviet Union. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z The Soviet Union had more first-rate players than any other three nations combined. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z News of the atomic bomb quickly reached Joseph Stalin, the supreme ruler of the Soviet Union, at his headquarters in the Kremlin, in Moscow's Red Square. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z When the Soviet Union entered World War II in 1941, Marina Raskova took command of a thousand female aviators and trained them to fly in three separate bomber and fighter regiments. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z One was the conviction of the stocky, beetle-browed Hungarian physicist that the lethargic pace of thermonuclear research had placed the United States at the mercy of the Soviet Union. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z In 1939, when the Soviet Union signed a nonaggression pact with Adolf Hitler, thousands of American party members resigned in disgust. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Astronauts from all nations can still go into space from the Soviet Union, and countries such as China have developed their own space programs. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z Besides, Gold was starting to realize that the Soviet Union was hardly the workers’ paradise Tom Black had described. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z She was much in demand as a spokesperson for the Soviet Union. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z It was much too dangerous: The KGB kept all foreigners in the Soviet Union under close surveillance. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The Soviet Union maintains an active program of unmanned planetary exploration. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z This, too, helped to increase the morale of the people of the Soviet Union. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Any form of scientific dissent to his theories—especially any belief in Mendelian genetics or Darwinian evolution—was outlawed in the Soviet Union. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z After 19 years of promised and canceled flights, the Soviet Union had just launched the second woman into space from the Soviet space center in Baikonur. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z The research had application to the design of missiles, of great interest as the United States sought to gain every possible military and technological advantage over the Soviet Union. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z She tells of how a famous Russian pilot and a triple Hero of the Soviet Union, A. I. Pokryshkin, landed at the airfield to refuel his fighter plane. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z On the international front, Oliver held talks with the governments of Great Britain and the Soviet Union, and in January 1987 met with the U.S. secretary of state, George Shultz, in Washington. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z To Soviet physicists like Flerov, this made it vitally important that the Soviet Union develop its own atomic bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Soviet women “were frustrated by contradictory messages: become aviators, but not in the highest levels of the military,” said Adrienne Marie Harris in her PhD thesis about women soldiers in the Soviet Union. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z On June 22, 1941, Hitler broke a peace treaty and invaded the Soviet Union, sending his army storming across the huge nation in a battlefront that stretched for over a thousand miles. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z As Eisenhower predicted, the U-2 scandal exploded the new relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z In 1940, Lysenko deposed his critics, assumed the directorship of the Institute of Genetics of the Soviet Union, and set up his own totalitarian fiefdom over Soviet biology. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z When the Soviet Union heard that the United States was planning to launch the country's first female into space aboard the space shuttle, the Soviet space agency committed to putting another Soviet woman into space. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z She was honored as a Hero of the Soviet Union and awarded the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star Medal. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z As for the British women, now that the war was over, the situation in the air was the same as it was in the United States and the Soviet Union. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Television and radio networks throughout the Soviet Union interrupted regular broadcasts to announce the result. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z In the Soviet Union these include capitalism, God, and the surrender of national sovereignty; in the United States, socialism, atheism, and the surrender of national sovereignty. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Marina and Polina were each presented with a second Order of Lenin award, and they and Valentina were all given the Gold Star of Hero of the Soviet Union— the nation’s highest honor. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z He urged everyone in the Soviet Union to “defend with their lives their freedom, their honour and their country in this patriotic war against German fascism.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z What was left of the old Russian Empire would become known as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics—the USSR, or Soviet Union. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z I dismissed the warning about the Soviet Union’s trouble with intellectuals. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z He described the enchantments of chicken, pork, and beef in China, Hong Kong, Germany, England, and the former Soviet Union. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Once the Germans captured the Volga River and destroyed the Soviet Union’s defenses, they could head north to get at Moscow. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z The CIA finally had to learn how to delve into the heart of the Soviet Union itself. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z On October 4, 1957, they made good on their promise: The Soviet Union launched a rocket into space containing Sputnik, a 185-pound satellite capable of orbiting the earth. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The revolt against communism that destroyed East Germany finally spread to the Soviet Union itself. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z While William Faulkner sweated in California trying to imagine what their lives must be like, hundreds of young airwomen were flying and fighting and dying over the battlefields of the Soviet Union. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z “Stalin has a plan, my love. The Kremlin will do anything to see it through. You know that. He wants Lithuania for the Soviet Union, so he’s moving us out temporarily.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z After the Soviet Union broke up, more details about Valentina's flight were brought to light. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z Twice honored with the Hero of the Soviet Union award, Svetlana worked as a flight engineer. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z The two senior officials had been meeting to explore ways that the CIA and KGB might work together, now that the Soviet Union was crumbling from within. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Intelligence agents began decoding all the messages sent to the Soviet Union during the war. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The Space Race began soon after the Allies won World War II. America and the former Soviet Union inherited and made use of German technology, specifically rocket technology. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z Attorney General Tom C. Clark developed a list of these organizations, which included everything from African American civil rights groups to labor unions and virtually anyone associated with communism or the Soviet Union. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z It is true that a lively fear of Russian intentions and capabilities had settled upon Washington, fueling the expectation that war with the Soviet Union was inevitable. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Of all the developments in the Soviet Union, the method by which scores of backward peoples had been led to unity on a national scale was what had enthralled me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I have offended you and your country, the Soviet Union, where chess has a prestigious position. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z It was the middle of the Cold War, and the Soviet Union opportunistically filled the void we left by providing money, supplies, and technical support to the new government. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z By the end of the Olympics, the Soviet Union, which had fielded one of the strongest teams ever, came in first and the United States eased into second. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Outside of the Soviet Union, where chess masters were comfortably supported by the state, no chess player could survive on his tournament winnings. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Though no open battles took place, the United States and the Soviet Union were engaged in a cold war. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z What if they ask me about nuclear weapons in the Soviet Union or something like that? Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z The Soviet Union announced on August 31, 1961, that it would resume atmospheric testing and made good on the threat the very next day. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z In this respect, the United States was way behind the Soviet Union. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z And now that spring was here, the Soviet Union tried to strike back against the German forces. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Through its inability to solve its racial problems, the United States handed the Soviet Union one of the most effective propaganda weapons in their arsenal. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z And in the 586th, every couple of weeks the regiment could get a truck ride to the nearest town so they could bathe in a public bathhouse, common throughout the Soviet Union. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z One obstacle remained and that was the Soviet Union itself. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z He said he had grown up in a large, comfortable apartment in Pyongyang and had followed the privileged educational trajectory of North Korea’s elites, studying in East Germany and the Soviet Union. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “The Soviet Union has had to shoot a lot of intellectuals,” he said. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Sputnik was proof, American policymakers assumed, that the Soviet Union had intercontinental ballistic missiles—many of them, hundreds perhaps, with the power to hurl an atomic weapon at US cities. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z There was no evidence that Pelton felt any attraction to communism or had a personal desire to help the Soviet Union; he seemed to be motivated entirely by money. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z So the agencies, encouraged by the success of that early round of resettlement, brought in other refugees—survivors of the conflicts in Bosnia and Kosovo, and oppressed minorities from the former Soviet Union. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z It’s a sharp contrast that, by the end of the 1930s, somewhere between a quarter and a third of all pilots in the Soviet Union were women. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z The Soviet Union won the race to be first in space on October 4, 1957, when Sputnik I was launched. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z Until the 1990s, North Korea’s economy was largely held together by subsidies from the Soviet Union. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z What was so different about the Soviet Union? A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Alexander Haig couldn't admit it in public in case the Soviet Union sided with Argentina, but even Ronald Reagan was on our side. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z He wanted to know if they supported this plan, which risked escalating tensions with the Soviet Union and China. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, a thousand airwomen in the Soviet Union continued their battle against the Nazi war machine. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z And, most ominously of all, in the mid-1970s the Soviet Union showed signs of pulling ahead, upsetting the balance that had kept World War III in check for nearly three decades. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Svetlana's second mission allowed the Soviet Union to best the United States yet again. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z Fischer’s request for an extended visa was denied, and what would be his lifelong, not-so-private war with the Soviet Union had commenced. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z For two days, in a congressional hearing room packed with spectators and news reporters, as flashbulbs went off and news cameras whirred, Elizabeth Bentley revealed the sensational details of her spying for the Soviet Union. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “If you will obtain as many of them as you can in complete detail and give them to me, I will see to it that those processes are turned over to the Soviet Union.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He decided he needed to make absolutely sure that the people of the Soviet Union were loyal to him—or at least, that they behaved in all ways like loyal people. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z If Hitler got his hands on atomic bombs, that would be the end of the Soviet Union. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z So Hitler decided to invade the Soviet Union. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Strauss seethed as Oppenheimer outlined the state of the arms race between America and the Soviet Union. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Richard Jacob, a young CIA officer in Moscow, had been arrested and deported from the Soviet Union. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Calling the Soviet Union an "evil empire," Reagan ordered the largest peacetime military buildup ever. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z In the Soviet Union the resources, quality, attention and care given to military production is in striking contrast to the little left for consumer goods. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The new American president, John F. Kennedy, refused to be bullied, demanding hard intelligence about the Soviet Union's military capabilities. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The next natural step in the minds of many in the Soviet Union was to put the first woman in space. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z Both bin Laden and Ronald Reagan saw the Soviet Union as the “evil empire,” but bin Laden came to see the United States as evil too. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z Few Russian women who became pilots in the Soviet Union’s state-sponsored clubs in the 1980s and early 1990s can afford to fly as private citizens now that the Soviet Union no longer exists. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z In February, a senior diplomat in the US embassy in Moscow named George Kennan sent a sobering message about the Soviet Union to his superiors in Washington. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z When the Soviet Union had agreed to invite Bobby to Moscow, and generously pay all expenses for him and his sister, he was granted a visa that was good for only twenty days. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z They were quickly convinced that an atomic bomb had exploded somewhere in the Soviet Union, probably on the morning of August 29. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The Space Age began when the Soviet Union launched the world’s first artificial satellite, Sputnik I, in 1957. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z It was impossible to prove that she was dead, so by the Soviet Union’s strict military regulations she couldn’t be given the award. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z When Stalin died in 1953, he was succeeded by Nikita Khrushchev, who held power during the most intense time of the Cold War rivalry between the Soviet Union and the United States and their allies. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z The only hope, he believed, was for the United States to stop building bombs and to somehow convince the Soviet Union not to start. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, in August, Lithuania was officially annexed into the Soviet Union. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z It was time for step two: the train ticket to Leningrad, the Soviet Union's second-largest city. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The preparatory steps are now under way, both in the United States and in the Soviet Union. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “The people of the Soviet Union need these processes,” said Black. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z It was becoming clear that when the war ended the United States and the Soviet Union would be the only world powers left standing—and that they’d be rivals. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z For the Germans, the big targets were the cities of Leningrad, the old imperial capital in the north, which had been the birthplace of the Soviet Union, and the new capital in Moscow. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Everyone in the Soviet Union was happy and friendly, unlike America, where crime made people afraid to leave their homes. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z The Soviet Union won by one point over the Rest of the World: 20½–19½, and the Russians were shaken by their near defeat. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z She said that the Soviet Union was the best nation in the world, along with Afghanistan. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z The disassembled missiles were lashed to the decks of cargo ships—including, ironically, many American-made vessels that had been given to the Soviet Union during World War II, when the two nations were allies. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z "Comrade Deputies," he shouted, "I must report to you on aggressive actions against the Soviet Union in the past few weeks by the United States of America." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The sides were set for the biggest and deadliest war in history—the United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union led the Allied Powers against the Axis Powers of Germany, Japan, and Italy. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Soon afterward, Dusya was posthumously given the Gold Star of Hero of the Soviet Union, the first of the 46th Guards to be awarded this medal. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z “He was banished from the Soviet Union,” I said. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z But, Hall wondered, how does one go about handing military secrets to the Soviet Union? Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z And the youth of the Soviet Union were ready for a patriotic war. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z But that wouldn’t stop the Soviet Union from building an atomic bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Marxists gave serious attention to national liberation movements and the Soviet Union in particular supported the national struggles of many colonial peoples. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “You know,” he said, his voice dropping to a low, confidential tone, “many comrades go wrong by reading the books of the bourgeoisie. The party in the Soviet Union had trouble with people like that.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Fearing a first-strike nuclear attack by the United States, the Soviet Union resolved not to let its guard down. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Countries that had been annexed by the Soviet Union wanted more independence. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z To the right was included all of what had once been the Soviet Union. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z The idea was that the people of the new Soviet Union would share everything according to people’s needs. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Marina Raskova was given the Soviet Union’s first state funeral of the war, with Moscow city and Soviet state officials in attendance, a thundering salute of guns, and an air force flyover. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Years later, when other men and women who’d served in the military in the Soviet Union’s Great Patriotic War referred to their units, they’d call them by their official name or by their regiment number. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z The imperative to raise the general level of technical proficiency had only grown stronger as the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union grew more inflamed. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Navy divers, or "frogmen," used a mini-submarine to place a "pod" on an important Soviet underwater communications cable in the Sea of Okhotsk, north of Japan and near the eastern coast of the Soviet Union. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The global balance of terror, pioneered by the United States and the Soviet Union, holds hostage the citizens of the Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z She became a symbol of equality and a positive symbol for the Soviet Union. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z The secrecy of weapons development, carried to especially extravagant lengths in the Soviet Union, implies that individuals so employed need almost never accept responsibility for their actions. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z If American agents were ever on Hall’s trail, Cohen said, the KGB had told her to help arrange his transport to the Soviet Union, where he’d be given a new life. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z At that point, the United States and Soviet Union would be in an arms race—each trying to produce weapons fast enough to stay ahead. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z At his sentencing for treason in a London courtroom, George Blake was given one year in prison for each of the British agents he was known to have betrayed to the Soviet Union: forty-two. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z These women from the western part of the Soviet Union left their homes for the unknown in 1962. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z To Oppenheimer, Truman’s refusal to even try to forge a genuine partnership with the Soviet Union for the control of nuclear weapons was a tragic lost opportunity. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Protracted tension between the U.S. and the Soviet Union provided a rich vein of inspiration for countless TV shows and movies for decades. ‘The Assets’: Hot on the trail of a Cold War spy within the CIA 2014-01-03T19:42:19Z After the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union, things changed drastically for the film industry. Artists' spat over Putin joins a Russian tradition 2013-02-03T10:01:13Z But the war in Korea and escalating rivalry with the Soviet Union prompted a shift back to the US mainland for greater security. Hollywood and the downwinders still grapple with nuclear fallout 2015-06-06T04:00:00Z President Vladimir V. Putin’s motivations in launching the invasion, he said, were tied to a desire to return Russia to a period of the Soviet Union when it held more international sway. This Bulgarian Writer’s Books Bend Time 2023-07-05T04:00:00Z Regional airports across the former Soviet Union tend to be a dreary lot, with all the appeal of a 24-hour bus station. Impossible to Forget: Lviv, Ukraine 2011-01-07T19:55:00Z “Not a single document substantiates the allegation that Mr. A. Hiss collaborated with the intelligence services of the Soviet Union,” Dr. Wiener quotes. Whittaker Chambers relative: Farm need not be open to public 2012-10-18T16:17:00Z The awful story of the Nazi treatment of European Jews may be most awful in Lithuania, then a part of the Soviet Union in which 95 percent of the Jewish population was killed. Holocaust escape tunnel discovery a blow against deniers: “It was dug out by spoons. By people who were shackled around the ankles” 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z Then the focus shifted to the Soviet Union, which largely controlled the market in the 20th century. How to make caviar sustainable 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z His call in 1946-47 for "containment" of the Soviet Union was a victory for anti-Communists who doubted that the U.S. could remain on good terms with its World War II ally. Cold War historian finishes epic on George Kennan 2012-04-19T17:08:13Z In 1949, the former Soviet Union, an ally turned rival, tested a bomb of its own, and in the same year, Communist revolutionaries, led by Mao Zedong, took control of mainland China. The American Vietnam War Is in the Spotlight, Again 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z Established to promote artistic dialogue between Europe’s East and West after the collapse of the Soviet Union, its first edition was staged in 1996, in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. The Art World Came to Kosovo. What Happens When It Leaves? 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z Stalin’s prewar Bolshevik nightmare was responsible for 20 million dead, but apparently was not so loathsome that the Soviet Union could not prove temporarily useful for Churchill and Roosevelt in bleeding out the Nazi Wehrmacht. When to Wage War, and How to Win: A Guide 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z Throughout the episode, characters saw their illusions about the Soviet Union punctured or their suspicions confirmed. ‘The Americans’ Season 5, Episode 9: Tuan on the Bus 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z A detailed appraisal of how the Soviet Union handled undercover operations from the communist revolution in 1917 until the end of the cold war. Shelf life 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z It was the day -- using the western calendar -- that Vladimir Lenin’s Bolsheviks overthrew the more moderate Kerensky provisional government, a decisive step in the revolution that eventually created the Soviet Union. Reuters reports big changes as Bolsheviks triumph 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z The bigger issue is that after the Soviet Union fell, we just lost all control of ourselves, it seems. Oliver Stone: Our empire is in decline 2010-09-23T11:01:00Z She tries to write as idiomatically as possible for each instrument, a skill facilitated by her study of violin and flute in the Soviet Union. ‘The Blind,’ Lera Auerbach’s Opera, Confronts Isolation 2013-07-05T17:16:44Z True, the Nazis used cartoons, but so has everyone else, from Stalin's Soviet Union to Iran today. Scarfe's Netanyahu cartoon was offensive? Hurrah 2013-01-29T18:30:02Z The Einsatzgruppen committed mass killings especially in occupied Poland and the Soviet Union. Nazi hunters seek German probe of WW2 death squad suspects 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z Let's take a look: "2010": The biggest U.S. enemy is the Soviet Union. '2010' the movie vs. 2010 the year 2010-12-20T16:40:00Z It wasn’t released in Russia until after the collapse of the Soviet Union. He Envisioned a Nightmarish, Dystopian Russia. Now He Fears Living in One. 2022-04-16T04:00:00Z The Soviet Union, thriving under Mikhail Gorbachev, is in expansionist mode. In ‘For All Mankind,’ the Future Is in the Past 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z The decade began with the collapse of the Soviet Union. Foreign Policy From the Dark Side 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z But those moments form a whole: a big, perplexingly unresolved portrait of the Soviet Union, at once shabby and mighty, caught between a mania for progress and the pull of ancient tradition. | 'Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century': ?Henri Cartier-Bresson,? a Retrospective at MoMA 2010-04-08T22:08:00Z The portrayal of evildoers in film changed in other ways, too, with the break-up of the Soviet Union. Russian baddies are back 2014-03-08T01:08:54Z Tiananmen soon faded from the public slate as the fall of the Soviet Union and the Gulf War grabbed headlines and as America’s hunger for inexpensive Chinese imports dampened outrage over the military crackdown. How CBS stole the show in covering Tiananmen Square Old Hollywood banned certain representations as did the Soviet Union. Is Lars von Trier Trolling Us? 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z Your books are largely about the old Soviet Union. The Russian Tom Clancy Is on the Front Lines for Real 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z Whereas for people from Finland, their national identity depends upon their unique language and having survived war against the Soviet Union. Jared Diamond: Here are the four ways America is ruining itself right now 2019-06-24T04:00:00Z Then there was the legacy of his paternal grandfather, who fought for the Nazis in the Soviet Union. High on Hitler and Meth: Book Says Nazis Were Fueled by Drugs 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z In 1990 protesters threw off the yoke of a splintering Soviet Union. Next Stop: In Mongolia, the Skyline by the Steppes 2013-08-02T16:45:36Z Berezil drew hundreds of partners and admirers from across the Soviet Union. When Ukrainian Music Wasn’t Under Threat, It Thrived 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z For more than four decades, the United States and the Soviet Union had been locked in Cold War confrontation that threatened nuclear devastation. 'Destiny and Power' sheds light on George H.W. Bush and the country we've become 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z Mr. Macrae was among those who urged his fellow publishers to boycott the Moscow Book Fair in 1983 to protest the Soviet Union’s treatment of dissidents. John Macrae III, Eclectic Publisher and Rights Champion, Dies at 91 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z They had two shows at the Ronald Feldman Gallery in New York before they were even allowed to leave the Soviet Union. Soviet Pop Art Duo Reunites for First U.S. Retrospective Since Their Breakup 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z Putin's most famous line about the Soviet Union is, in fact, a misquote. Mr Putin, Operative in the Kremlin by Fiona Hill and Clifford G Gaddy – review 2013-05-10T08:00:02Z “The Genius Under the Table” isn’t about the Yelchins fleeing the Soviet Union. A Charming, Poignant Middle-Grade Memoir of Soviet Russia 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z Hammond is a “genius” who helped make “a political set of movements, which brought about an unimaginable success — and that was breaking the back of the Soviet Union.” This Hill staffer (maybe) saved the free world. But all he wants is a career in theater. 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, tensions between the United States and the old Soviet Union were about to boil over. Voices of America: A Cold-War Mormon Moment 2010-08-20T17:04:00Z Back in the final years of the Soviet Union, New York and London patrons learned that the price of watching Russian ballet companies was to undergo a heightened security process on entering theaters. Bolshoi Ballet Turns Back the Clock in Its New York Season 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z Now under Sega's umbrella, this eagerly awaited strategy sequel tasks players with defending the Soviet Union from Nazi invasion. Company of Heroes 2 – review 2013-07-06T23:05:39Z It’s true that the space race of the fifties and sixties was a military-industrial throwdown with the Soviet Union, but the feeling of mind-blowing scientific breakthrough was no pretense. Goodnight Moon Landing 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z Going by the measure of the capitalism of the 30s, which is what the Soviet Union had first set out to beat in terms of living standards, Soviet life was now spectacularly prosperous. Red star rising 2010-08-06T23:04:00Z Some of the country's earlier exports were large-scale, nationalistic spectacles modeled after similar Communist pageantry in the Soviet Union. China breaks into Las Vegas show business 2014-04-29T12:57:39Z And for women who wonder why immigration officers can’t put stricter quotas on tall, high-cheekboned beauties from the republics of the former Soviet Union, “Russian Dolls” provides some solace. Television Review: Left the Volga, Kept the Vulgar 2011-08-10T22:02:55Z This is not quite the Soviet Union, though. Knowledge is power 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z His postings took him to many of the world’s most beleaguered or intriguing places — 1920s Burma; 1930s Spain, France and Italy; 1940s Mexico; 1950s Soviet Union. Pablo Neruda’s love nest in Santiago: Like his poetry, it’s filled with passion 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z How galling Putin will find this account of the ultimate KGB defector, who risked everything to break the tower of lies that was the Soviet Union. Review | In ‘The Spy and the Traitor,’ a tale of Cold War espionage that’s both thrilling and true 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z The Soviet Union is a massive country, he says: “Why can’t we grow enough grain ourselves?” Review: ‘The Americans’ History Suddenly Feels Less Retro 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z “If we were in the Soviet Union, you would have been fired for half the questions you asked me, and I never would have filmed anything at all,” he said. A Russian Writer’s Lessons for Being a Nobody While Being Yourself 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z The book, titled "Alone With Myself," chronicles Gorbachev's life from his childhood to the 1991 demise of the Soviet Union. Gorbachev issues new book, laments illnesses 2012-11-13T19:43:17Z The judges at Nuremberg represented the victorious Allies - the U.S. the Soviet Union, Britain and France. Germany opens new exhibit on Nuremberg trial 2010-11-21T15:35:00Z The fall of the Soviet Union, this was, the death of analog. Gen X Has a Midlife Crisis 2010-05-08T18:21:00Z He has no black colleagues, no female colleagues; meanwhile, a female cosmonaut, Valentina Tereshkova, flew a space mission for the Soviet Union in 1963. “First Man,” Reviewed: Damien Chazelle’s Neil Armstrong Bio-Pic Is an Accidental Right-Wing Fetish Object 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z During the tumultuous years that followed the crumbling of the Soviet Union, piracy continued to be the main access point for Hollywood films in Russia. In Echo of Soviet Era, Russia’s Movie Theaters Turn to Pirate Screenings 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z Choreography was not documented through dance notation in the Soviet Union, although Vaynonen's widow's memoirs illuminated many details for Messerer about the choreographer's intentions and style with specific descriptions of the ballet's steps. 'Flames of Paris' blazes anew with Mikhailovsky Ballet at Segerstrom 2014-11-22T05:00:00Z Rusadze said Georgia's film industry died after the collapse of the Soviet Union 20 years ago, when it lost Moscow's funding and skills deteriorated. Ex-Soviet Georgia eyes film industry rebirth 2011-03-05T17:07:48Z It was his talent as a 12-year-old wizard at improvisation, after all, that brought him to Mr. Burton’s attention when he was performing at a festival in the Soviet Union. Music: Kirill Gerstein Balances Classical Music and Jazz 2012-04-13T20:24:11Z But nearly 90 years after he went to the Soviet Union on his first assignment, Tintin shows no signs of waning popularity, and the crowds are lining up outside the Grand Palais. From 'Tintin' to 'Zootopia': A peek inside two Paris exhibitions celebrating a century of animation 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z His scrappy, capitalist instincts were forged in the crisis years of the nineteen-nineties, when Russia’s society and economy lurched and stumbled following the collapse of the Soviet Union. A Russian Fast-Food Chain Tries Its Luck in America 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z Figes' entry for the Johnson prize, "The Whisperer," was praised as a "beautiful and necessary" account of the Soviet Union. Harsh Amazon reviewer unmasked as author's wife 2010-04-19T16:49:00Z In the Soviet Union, Stalin was certainly no progressive; he murdered his political enemies at will. Flying Through the Night to Defeat the Nazis 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z “American Moon” was largely inspired by talk of a space race between the United States and the Soviet Union. Party Like It’s 1959 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z The germ of the book is a joke about a Jew applying to leave the Soviet Union. Less Than Nothing by Slavoj Žižek – review 2012-06-27T11:52:01Z She went on to complete, in Poland and the Soviet Union, more than 200 missions with the Blue Squadron, a unit of volunteer ambulance drivers with the Red Cross. Film-maker tells story of Polish nuns’ secret pregnancies after mass rape by Stalin’s troops 2016-10-01T04:00:00Z In their tumultuous history in the Soviet Union and in the Russian empire before it, Jews were subjected to brutal prejudice yet often flourished. Explorer: Israel With a Russian Accent (and Pork) 2010-02-27T04:22:00Z In one, the impersonator Rich Little imitates Ronald Reagan complaining to about the Soviet Union’s support of leftist revolutions. Television Review: PBS Documentary About Former Secretary of State 2010-07-11T22:03:00Z “Farewell,” meanwhile, is a fact-based story about a pivotal moment in the unraveling of the Soviet Union. Christian Carion?s ?Farewell? Revisits the Cold War 2010-07-09T04:32:00Z Deeply hostile to American imperialism, he was never uncritical of the Soviet Union and, as a consequence, was often slandered in the Stalinist press. Isaac and Isaiah: The Covert Punishment of a Cold War Heretic by David Caute – review 2013-06-20T07:00:34Z But he picked petty fights wherever he went; and he championed the Soviet Union long after Stalin began slaughtering his people and murdering his geneticists. The Groundbreaking Scientist Who Risked All in Pursuit of His Beliefs 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z Obviously many revere the book, first published in Italy in 1957 after being banned by the authorities in the Soviet Union, where it wasn’t published until decades later. Review: ‘Doctor Zhivago,’ the Broadway Musical 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z He was already familiar with the Socialist Realist style of art favored by the Communist governments of China and the Soviet Union, he added — but he was struck by North Korea’s more emotional variant. Korean Art Goes on Show, With Protests From North and South 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z McDonald’s, a symbol of the end of the Soviet Union when it first opened in Moscow, has shuttered its Russian locations. In Russian invasion of Ukraine, Cold War echoes reverberate 2022-03-13T05:00:00Z He looks humble beneath the immense mosaics that have glinted since the 11th century — through Kyiv’s sacking by the Mongols, its absorption into Poland, its domination by the Soviet Union. The War in Ukraine Is the True Culture War 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z Mr. Reeve recounted his trip to the Soviet Union in “Robert Frost in Russia,” published in 1964 and in a second edition in 2001. F. D. Reeve, Poet and Translator, Dies at 84 2013-07-08T02:48:30Z According to the show's publicity, it follows China's Communist leader Mao Zedong between the founding of the People's Republic of China and his second visit to the former Soviet Union 12 years later. China regulators suspend crime TV 2011-05-06T12:55:17Z The film was so corny in its utopian depiction of the Soviet Union that it was impossible, even for a committed Stalinist, to take seriously. Richard Collins obituary 2013-02-20T18:14:54Z I am worried from my own experience of living in the Soviet Union. Andris Nelsons 2010-06-05T23:05:00Z The Soviet Union also saw industrialization, albeit uncompetitive compared with Britain, the United States and Japan. Red October: Russia of 1917 and 2017 closer than might be expected 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z And it’s informative too, showing us the Soviet Union in a halcyon period before Stalin’s terror, when you felt that things were still possible in a new political context. 50 documentaries you need to see 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z Joseph Stalin, who was responsible for exterminating some twenty million people, imposed total censorship of all forms of media in the Soviet Union. The right’s religion lie: Science, sex and the truth about God and politics 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z All the socialist realist writers from the Soviet Union were in our house: And Quiet Flows the Don by Sholokov and so on. A life in writing: Tariq Ali 2010-05-07T23:18:00Z Growth came only in the nineties, when Germany passed a law welcoming Jews from the former Soviet Union. So Long, Israel; Hello, Berlin 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z They were Jews in Ukraine, one of the most anti-Semitic regions of the Soviet Union, where suppression of Judaism was a time-honored custom and government policy, both written and unwritten. ‘A Backpack, a Bear and Eight Crates of Vodka,’ a Memoir 2014-11-23T05:00:00Z Weary of war stories, Ms. Alexievich is working on two new collections — on aging and on love — and is preparing to travel across the former Soviet Union to gather material. Svetlana Alexievich, Nobel Laureate of Russian Misery, Has an English-Language Milestone 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z In a series of interlocking episodes the narrator – like Makine, an orphan – guides us through the totalitarian world of Brezhnev's Soviet Union. Brief Loves That Live Forever by Andreï Makine – review 2013-04-19T08:01:01Z A former KGB agent, he once called the collapse of the Soviet Union “the greatest geopolitical catastrophe” of the 20th century. In Russian invasion of Ukraine, Cold War echoes reverberate 2022-03-13T05:00:00Z Some say it’s about the Soviet Union’s gulag prison camp system, others that its real subject is nuclear disaster. What’s on TV Monday: ‘The Bachelor’ and ‘The New Pope’ 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z “In the late 1990s he wrote ‘Single & Single,’ which was … incredibly perspicacious about what the economic impact of the collapse of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union would be,” Glenny says. Tinker, Tailor, Writer, Spy 2019-10-12T04:00:00Z “Millennials don’t remember a threatening Soviet Union or any Soviet Union,” he continued. Bill Maher dumps on millennial socialist dreams : They’re “too used to getting sh*t for free” 2016-06-11T04:00:00Z We still saw the Soviet Union as a drab, summerless country, one that hated all our American freedoms, not realizing, of course, how much hating them was affecting us. What '80s kids also remember: On stranger danger, Satanic panic and generations of trickle-down fear 2023-10-21T04:00:00Z It also ensured him the considerable accolade that not one of Hobsbawm's books was ever published in the Soviet Union. Eric Hobsbawm obituary 2012-10-01T09:59:14Z This was at a moment when capitalism was in crisis, and disillusion with the Soviet Union, and Stalin, hadn’t fully set in; the Soviet Union’s economic success made it seem like a beacon of hope. Review: Adam Hochschild’s ‘Spain in Our Hearts,’ About a Strangely Literary Conflict 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z Both song and film were enormous hits abroad, especially in the Soviet Union, where bands serenaded Nargis and Kapoor with the tune when they visited; in China, Mao was said to be a fan. Critic?s Notebook: MoMA Presents a Raj Kapoor Film Festival 2012-01-05T22:50:33Z His political awakening was a gradual process, but a trip to the Soviet Union, at the personal invitation of the filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein, was a notable turning point. Review: Daniel Beaty as Paul Robeson in ‘The Tallest Tree in the Forest’ 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z This series about the 1986 Soviet Union nuclear power plant disaster is grim but masterfully executed. The AP names ‘Surviving R. Kelly’ top TV show of 2019 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z Less familiar is the true story of how a prototype created in 1984 by a software engineer for the Soviet Union’s Academy of Sciences ended up reaching millions of players across the world. Why Tetris Consumed Your Brain 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z Western European countries became nervous about Joseph Stalin, leader of the Soviet Union. Europe: 100 years of war and transformation When World War II broke out, his mother, a singer, fled the Soviet Union with infant Sergei and her mother. Sergei Tschernisch: In 17 years at Cornish's helm, mission accomplished 2011-05-14T04:33:09Z “The actual idea of having rock bands in Soviet Union was totally out of anyone’s agenda,” he said. East by Far East: Vladivostok Rocks 2013-08-28T22:59:23Z The best characters in “The Americans” keep leaving for the Soviet Union: Martha, Oleg and now — after Tuesday night’s somber, moving episode, “Crossbreed” — Gabriel. ‘The Americans’ Season 5, Episode 6 Recap: ‘I’m Going Home’ 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z The producer David Eden became acquainted with Mr. Danilian in 1989; at the time, Mr. Eden, who had left the Soviet Union as a child, hoped to reconnect with his culture. Meet the Impresario Who Makes Dance Happen 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z They pay $22 a month to practice in a basement gym at the Palace of Sports, one of the largest arenas built for basketball in the former Soviet Union. Could this man control college basketball? 2013-03-17T21:00:00Z The same month Levittown opens its gates to the public, the Voice of America starts broadcasting to the Soviet Union for the very first time. Weird suburbia: How atomic bombs and UFOs created modern America 2014-03-16T18:00:00Z Through the 1970s and much of the 1980s, Kira Muratova’s stirring films “Brief Encounters” and “The Long Farewell” went unseen, banned by the Soviet Union. ‘Brief Encounters’ and ‘The Long Farewell’ Review: Soulful Soviet Dramas 2023-08-24T04:00:00Z Was he more certain that the Soviet Union was his true enemy? My parents’ Dunkirk spirit is probably why I exist 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z The last one ended with the shock of the new: abstract paintings by Malevich, Rodchenko and other Soviet innovators, taking up the banner of modernism in the new Soviet Union. French and Russian Art on a ‘War and Peace’ Scale 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z “I’ve had Russians acting on behalf of other countries or other organizations because of the skill level they developed working for the Soviet Union, the KGB and its successor,” he said. When Russia was the villain: How this moment echoes the era of Cold War spy novels and ‘Rocky IV’ 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z The Soviet Union would last a little over 70 years. Condoleezza Rice on the 10 Days Still Shaking the World 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z But it was my first trip to the former Soviet Union, and I still had my doubts. Frugal Traveler Blog: Saving Rubles in St. Petersburg 2012-09-04T21:23:01Z There’s also the factor that she basically disappeared into the Soviet Union later in life. My mentally ill sister 2012-06-02T00:00:00Z Kharkiv, even more than Kyiv, had been the crucible of the Ukrainian avant-garde in the first years of the Soviet Union. The Life’s Work of Photography’s Great Trickster, and Ukraine’s Greatest Artist 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z Thatcher, a Conservative, was revered for uncompromising opposition to the Soviet Union and for putting the "Great" back in Great Britain. Thatcher's "Iron Lady" image softened by new movie 2011-12-27T13:06:35Z Set in the 1950s, the story follows Murray and Howard, a failed writing team, who are kidnapped and taken to the Soviet Union where they are ordered to fix a Communist propaganda musical. | 'Iron Curtain': ?Iron Curtain? at Baruch Performing Arts - Review 2011-11-16T22:59:30Z In the movie’s cause-and-effect logic Laura faces danger in Denver because a Slovakian whipped off her bra because the Soviet Union fell apart ... and in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Movie Review: ‘360’ With Anthony Hopkins and Jude Law 2012-08-02T22:00:14Z He is still revered by many who say he led the Soviet Union to victory in World War II and turned a struggling nation into a superpower. Georgia's Stalin museum to focus on his atrocities 2012-04-09T15:19:11Z Boot was born in the Soviet Union in 1969, and came to the United States, in 1976, as part of a wave of Jewish emigration from the Eastern Bloc. The Plight of the Political Convert 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z In the Soviet Union, however, she was consigned to oblivion, and after her death, she slipped to the farthest margins of the literary map. ‘Subtly Worded’ Brings Teffi to Non-Russian Readers 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z Getting killed or maimed in Lebanon, or Egypt, or wherever the bullets were flying, seemed to defeat the whole point of leaving the Soviet Union.” Books of The Times: One Jewish Family in 2 Worlds, Outsiders in Both 2011-04-10T19:00:16Z I didn’t know China, or the Soviet Union, or central Asia well enough to be able to guess things. 5 great books on world travel 2013-02-04T12:45:00Z The opera was banned for decades in the Soviet Union, and Shostakovich feared being arrested. Stalin Didn’t Like This Opera, but Audiences Still Do 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z “I sensed this intangible sense of freedom, which everyone talks about,” she said, reflecting on her decision not to return to the Soviet Union. ‘The Blind,’ Lera Auerbach’s Opera, Confronts Isolation 2013-07-05T17:16:44Z On Wednesday The New York Times’s obituaries included one of Judith Coplon, who in 1949 was tried and convicted of giving secrets to the Soviet Union. ArtsBeat: A Cold War Spy Trial, Before McCarthy and the Rosenbergs 2011-03-04T18:48:00Z The end of the Soviet Union was, among Russians, both unsurprising and unforeseen. Adam Curtis’s Essential Counterhistories 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z Dugin did a complete flip around, and felt that he was actually for the Soviet Union. Donald Trump’s “chaos magic”: Author Gary Lachman on the far right’s links to occult phil... 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z You spent the early years of your childhood in the former Soviet Union, before immigrating with your family to the United States. Sana Krasikov on the Rise of Group Morality 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z These young soldiers performed heroically in the defeat of the Soviet Union. America's 'detainee 001' ? the persecution of John Walker Lindh 2011-07-10T16:08:00Z The Cold War-era satire of the U.S. and Soviet Union's bumble to nuclear war managed notes both serious and the absurd, they realized. HBO's 'The Brink,' with Jack Black, is satiric about the geopolitical 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z In the early 1930s, he and his team made regular visits to the Soviet Union to help establish a pictorial statistics institute there. Design: Universal Symbols That Tell the Story 2011-02-13T19:30:05Z In the early days of the Soviet Union, Jews not only held top political positions but also occupied central positions in the artistic avant-garde. The Jews Who Dreamed of Utopia 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z Telling Fetisov's story allows "Red Army" to chronicle the changes in individual lives as the Soviet Union transformed into the Russia that exists today, and it does so with energy and style. 'Red Army' a winning look at Soviet-era's storied ice hockey team 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z Shostakovich Symphony No 7, 'Leningrad' Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra/Petrenko Shostakovich wrote the seventh and longest of his 15 symphonies in the summer of 1941, following the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. Shostakovich: Symphony No 7 'Leningrad' – review 2013-04-27T23:07:01Z His artistic concerns today are more humanistic and universal, he says, and no longer focused on the Soviet Union. Coast of Utopia 2014-05-01T04:00:00Z Set on the day the country was officially subsumed into the Soviet Union, it's not surprising that the book's unnamed narrator, a writer, is suffering from a bad hangover. Tadeusz Konwicki lays bare Poland's 'ruined-modern' past 2011-04-06T11:54:51Z She built herself up to director, brought the Mona Lisa to the Soviet Union and outlasted every leader from Stalin to Yeltsin to become the doyenne of 's art world. Doyenne of Russia's art world ousted from Pushkin Museum at 91 2013-07-01T16:29:10Z I spent my childhood in the ancient city of Kiev, the biggest city in the Soviet Union after Moscow and Leningrad. My grandfather, who finally came back from the second world war in 1981 2018-01-13T05:00:00Z The show also praises a close commercial tie West Germany and the Soviet Union forged, beginning in the early 1970s. ‘Russen & Deutsche,’ at Neues Museum in Berlin 2013-01-05T00:57:53Z The moral problem, he notes, is that the defenders of the Republic were, in embracing the Soviet Union, “fighting for one of the finest of causes beside one of the nastiest of allies.” Review: Adam Hochschild’s ‘Spain in Our Hearts,’ About a Strangely Literary Conflict 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z “Refusenik,” at 11 a.m., tells the story of Jews who were denied permission to leave the Soviet Union. Spare Times for Feb. 10-16 2012-02-09T21:44:47Z When the Soviet Union broke up, conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer argued that socialists would use environmentalism to smuggle their bankrupt ideas into the American mind. A Green New Deal ignites an old red scare 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z Leningrad in the nineteen-seventies was a closed, stultifying world all to itself, a microcosm of the Soviet Union: a universe of muted grays and beige, where nothing much seemed to ever change. A Russian Writer’s Lessons for Being a Nobody While Being Yourself 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z A look at the Met’s roster is instructive: During the 1988-89 season, the last full season before the Berlin Wall came down, there were only three singers from the Soviet Union performing there. Olympics Spotlight for Russia’s Musical Profile 2014-02-05T22:54:52Z His images of an aging Soviet Union arcade in Gyumri, Armenia present an archetypal arcade frozen in time, unchanged for the past 30 years of tumultuous history. Russian video arcade captures dying culture 2013-01-20T20:00:00Z Within living memory, Germany, Italy, and Spain were fascist dictatorships and the Soviet Union was a mass murdering totalitarian state. The Sun Never Set on the British Empire, or Its Food 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z Opening as the Middle East is experiencing the same political convulsions that brought down the Soviet Union, “My Perestroika” is also astoundingly timely. | 'My Perestroika': Through the Looking Glass of History 2011-03-22T23:12:14Z But because of Cuba’s close relationship with the Soviet Union, many works of prescreened Soviet science fiction were published. Sci-Fi Writers Find Warmer Climate Amid Cuban Thaw 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z In 1976, he was allowed to leave the Soviet Union for the United States. Yakov Kreizberg, Orchestral Conductor, Dies at 51 2011-04-11T22:49:58Z Photographer Christopher Herwig first noticed the quirky bus shelters of the former Soviet Union while traveling through the region on a bicycle. Soviet Bus Stops 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z But they needn’t have feared: Europe and the Soviet Union embraced the show in a way that Americans no longer did. Op-Ed Columnist: In ?Porgy and Bess,? Variations on an Explosive Theme 2012-01-22T04:49:04Z Early designs, such as this example from 1935, "favoured form over content and highlighted the exotic and adventurous attractions of the Soviet Union". In pictures: Selling the USSR as a travel destination 2013-08-14T07:30:09Z As part of a covert campaign to undermine the Soviet Union during the Cold War, of course. 7 Podcasts to Binge in a Day 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z With the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, America emerged as the lone superpower. Can cities desegregate? 2012-05-28T15:00:00Z The Soviet Union had sent the first man into space several weeks earlier. A new era in spaceflight: Back to the moon on the way to Mars 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z They had scarcely been looked at since they arrived from the Soviet Union in the 1940s. Antiques: ?40s Propaganda Posters: Soviet Morale Boosters 2011-07-28T19:57:01Z Rice is an accomplished pianist who considered becoming a professional musician before opting to specialize in studying the former Soviet Union. Former top U.S. diplomat Rice opts for Mozart concerto 2010-07-28T04:14:00Z In the nineties, before he became a well-known choreographer, the two of them used to tour all over the Soviet Union performing small pieces of his creation at galas. Dancers at Work: Alexei Ratmansky in the Studio with Natalia Osipova and David Hallberg 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z Nelms paints bountiful Georgia as “the California of the former Soviet Union.” Review | Supra sets an inviting table for a Georgian feast 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z "I wanted to start exploring music from the Soviet Union," Seattle flutist Paul Taub explains, "as a way of finding something in the repertoire that nobody else was playing." Paul Taub's 'Edge': local flutist explores periphery of Europe 2011-11-03T20:00:10Z It’s allowed me to travel with relative ease throughout the former Soviet Union. How I Taught My Son to Speak Russian 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z Mr. King was the art editor of The Sunday Times of London magazine in 1970 when he traveled to the Soviet Union to gather material for an article on the centenary of Lenin’s birth. David King, Collector of Soviet Political Art, Dies at 73 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z A few years later, after World War II, Vyborg and the surrounding Karelian region became part of the Soviet Union. Step Inside Finnish Architect Alvar Aalto’s Vyborg Library 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z He learned about his cousin Sonia Beder, a Holocaust survivor who testified that armed Lithuanians prevented 6,000 Jews in her village from escaping to the Soviet Union three days before the Germans arrived. My grandfather wasn’t a Nazi fighting war hero — he was a brutal collaborator 2018-07-14T04:00:00Z Ilyin spent the 30s exiled from the Soviet Union, but Putin has brought him back, quoting him in his speeches and laying flowers on his grave. The 1930s were humanity's darkest, bloodiest hour. Are you paying attention? 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist unveils this inscrutable country, comparing its calcified regime to the Soviet Union in its final days. 100 Notable Books of 2012 2012-11-27T16:28:12Z Dwight’s rejection, for example, offered an “incredibly important propaganda moment for the Soviet Union”, says the historian Damion Thomas in the film. Breaking the color barrier: behind the long fight to diversify space 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z He left the Soviet Union in 1974 to dance internationally, including with the New York City Ballet. Baryshnikov takes the US stage in native Russian 2012-04-12T19:36:08Z His latest, “The Folly and the Glory,” covers numerous landmark events dating back to the beginnings of the Cold War rivalry between the Soviet Union and the United States. The Rivalry That Forged the Cold War 2020-09-22T04:00:00Z The preceding two hours of Child 44 are drudge work, as if to prove that visiting the Soviet Union at the exhausted end of the Stalin era is no more exciting than living there. In Child 44, Tom Hardy Slogs Through a Stalin-Era Procedural 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z "There was not a band anywhere in the Soviet Union", says Woodhead, "that did not start life as a Beatles tribute band." For young Soviets, the Beatles were a first, mutinous rip in the iron curtain 2013-04-20T13:00:01Z Bedford also provided the books gratis to Western travelers — doctors, lawyers, engineers, artists and journalists — en route to the Soviet Union. Isaac Patch, who led CIA-financed program to distribute books in the Soviet Union, dies “Svetlana Alexievich’s books deal with historical crises—the Second World War, the Soviet war in Afghanistan, the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl, and the collapse of the Soviet Union—through the voices of ordinary individuals.” Sunday Reading: Russian Literature 2018-09-09T04:00:00Z If Dench or Mirren ever appeared in The Cosmonaut's Last Message to the Woman he Once Loved in the Former Soviet Union, many ticket-buyers wouldn't even notice what the play was called. Do play titles matter? 2013-04-01T11:17:03Z He would spend hours at the State Hermitage Museum engrossed with works by Wassily Kandinsky, and he relished photos of East European exhibitions in smuggled art revues that were banned in the Soviet Union. Special Report: Contemporary Art: Using Wealth to Critique the Wealthy 2010-12-01T11:00:00Z When the Soviet Union collapsed, she said, so too did the village’s economy, as people like Olena who depended on the state lost their jobs. On Christmas Eve in Ukraine, the Church Is Chilly (or Is It?) 2017-12-23T05:00:00Z In an interview with the former Soviet Union leader, Frost asked about communism, his legacy, and his relationship with, and views of, Thatcher. David Frost’s Most Memorable Interviews 2013-09-02T02:01:39Z Vladimir Putin’s aggressions, he says, don’t seem driven by ideology the way communism was for the Soviet Union. In Russian invasion of Ukraine, Cold War echoes reverberate 2022-03-13T05:00:00Z It is not clear whether his wounds were from the war in Afghanistan, which the Soviet Union invaded in 1979, or what eventually became of him. Abandoned Budapest hospital offers glimpse into Soviet past 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z Fill the gap with Leon Botstein and his adventurous band, and this program looking at Jewish composers in the Soviet Union. Classical Music in NYC This Week 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z As for Truman's US, the threat of a rampant Soviet Union in the postwar Pacific rim was even more chilling. Oliver Stone: how America went wrong 2013-04-15T17:07:33Z The Soviet Union was built on the enormous intellectual foundation of Marxism-Leninism. In Masha Gessen’s ‘The Future Is History,’ Homo Sovieticus Rises 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z It was her powerful physical relationship with the Bolshoi that gripped the dance world’s imagination, and, as she described it, kept her from leaving the Soviet Union. Maya Plisetskaya, Ballerina Who Embodied Bolshoi, Dies at 89 2015-05-02T04:00:00Z “They laughed at Hitler, ridiculed the German Army, satirized failed attempts to invade the Soviet Union,” Shternshis explained. The Devastating Resonances of Yiddish Songs Recovered from the Second World War 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z From those modest beginnings grew an empire that at its height, after the Soviet Union’s victory in World War II, spanned 11 time zones and comprised almost 200 million people. How the Dead Hand of Imperialism Continues to Influence World Politics 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z Wagner also said that Lowry should be placed in an international context, and his work assessed alongside that of peers working in the 1930s in Germany or in the postwar Soviet Union. Tate exhibition to pay homage to LS Lowry 2013-01-15T19:16:15Z The next year, the United States got the Soviet Union to pull back from putting nuclear missiles in Cuba, from where they could hit the United States. John F. Kennedy, an always youthful president, would be 100 this month 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z When the Germans invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, they brought movie cameras as well as rifles. ‘Babi Yar: Context’ Review: Unearthing Footage of a Nazi Massacre 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z He sang to Cuban soldiers serving in Angola, and he toured the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Pablo Milanés, Troubadour of the Cuban Revolution, Dies at 79 2022-11-24T05:00:00Z Cuba’s “special period” was the government’s term for the economic crisis when the Soviet Union dissolved and stopped subsidizing the country. For two Cuban artists, divergent paths intersect at GALA Hispanic Theatre His credentials and drive seemed to promise a rewarding career when the United States began scrambling to catch up after the Soviet Union put Sputnik in orbit. The Brilliant Astronomer Who Devised New Tactics to Fight Anti-Gay Bias 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z The second installment of a three-part biography explores Stalin the ideologue and the opportunist, and concludes with the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. New in Paperback: ‘Ramp Hollow,’ ‘Freshwater’ 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z When they were shooting the second film, Gale was instructed to give a guided tour to a relative of one of the studio bosses, visiting from Odessa in the Soviet Union. A quarter of a century for Back in the Future 2010-09-16T20:30:00Z The Soviet Union, at one point, wanted to send up cosmonauts from all its different satellite countries. ArtsBeat Blog: Darren Aronofsky Gets a Reality Check from the Margaret Mead Film Festival 2011-11-09T13:00:02Z Its people were widely loathed and two of its conquering powers, the Soviet Union and France, were counting on reparations from their former Nazi enemy to help rebuild their own economies. Why American Pragmatists Saved Postwar Europe 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z They're all from the former Soviet Union and either live or have lived in Brooklyn's Brighton Beach neighborhood. Reality TV show 'Russian Dolls' stirs controversy 2011-09-01T06:52:10Z In the late summer of 1962, poet Robert Frost was invited to visit the Soviet Union. Donald Trump should read Robert Frost's poem 'Mending Wall' 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z First published in the West in 1973, "The Gulag Archipelago" prompted furious Soviet leaders to expel Solzhenitsyn from the Soviet Union in 1974. Putin: Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago essential 2010-10-26T16:37:00Z Army cold warrior 45 years ago, briefly based in what was then West Germany, I aimed to make some sense of the vast changes in Europe since the Soviet Union’s collapse. Into the Baltic Sea, but out of the Cold: Revisiting Berlin and St. Petersburg 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z Its legacy is associated with the greatest achievements of the Soviet Union. Choir in Plane Crash Projects Russian Pride and Soft Power 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z Shortly after the revolution in 1959, Cuba began sending sugar, tobacco and research to the Soviet Union in exchange for a steady supply of goods that included food, agricultural equipment and farm chemicals. A Rush of Americans, Seeking Gold in Cuban Soil 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z The cast, Jurowski has said in interviews, is nearly an entire Soviet Union; there are singers from Russia, yes, but also Ukraine, Lithuania, Moldova and other former republics. Review: The Time for Prokofiev’s ‘War and Peace’ Is Now 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z My parents were brought up to feel that Germany was the enemy, but my generation felt that the Soviet Union was the enemy. 5 great books on world travel 2013-02-04T12:45:00Z As he began searching for art in earnest across the Soviet Union, Mr. Zarug said he discovered huge stores of neglected paintings. Unknown or Unreal? The Shadow on Some Russian Avant-Garde Art 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z Weil, who first visited Russia as a 14-year-old exchange student in 1991, shortly before the Soviet Union fell, depicts the land and its people with affection, fascination and an unsparing eye. Modern Russian fable superbly drawn 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z It’s 1934 and Florence Fein is bound from Brooklyn to the Soviet Union, hoping to align herself with the socialist cause. Paperback Row 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z They were nearly all built in the last 15 years of the Soviet Union. Swansongs of a superpower: Russia's secret architecture 2011-02-07T21:31:01Z Voznesensky's death evokes the age when the Soviet Union was seen as a superpower, so its literature assumed great importance. Andrei Voznesensky obituary 2010-06-03T18:01:00Z Ms. Saleh trained with these teachers until the late 1950s, when teachers from the Soviet Union arrived to hold classes at a new government-subsidized school affiliated with the Cairo Ballet. Magda Saleh, Influential Egyptian Ballerina, Is Dead at 79 2023-06-20T04:00:00Z There was a specific enemy, the Soviet Union, in the 1950s and ’60s. Steven Spielberg on the Cold War and Other Hollywood Front Lines 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z Czarist Russia sent prisoners to remote Siberian colonies where labor was in short supply; the system was inherited and expanded by the Soviet Union, which worked millions of prisoners to death in the gulag. Pussy Riot members face tough life in penal colony 2012-10-14T10:33:10Z As the Cold War came to an end and the Soviet Union dissolved, the United States found itself all out of enemies. The changing face of “America’s dog” — and what it says about us 2021-07-04T04:00:00Z One example was Donetsk, Ukraine, which was called Stalino for several decades under the Soviet Union. These Artists Bring Pickles to the Party 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z Oksanen is convinced that, 23 years after the fall of the Soviet Union, Russian President Vladimir Putin's grip on power is a serious threat for Eastern European democracies. Sofi Oksanen bats for the Baltics at Frankfurt book fair 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z Fascinated by Stalin, he went to the Soviet Union in 1930 and glimpsed the shadows beneath the dictator's shining Five Year Plan. TV review: Storyville: Hitler, Stalin and Mr Jones; Michael Johnson: Survival of the Fastest 2012-07-05T21:20:01Z A prima ballerina, she left the Soviet Union to join the American Ballet Theatre and performed in Romeo and Juliet the week the Kennedy Center opened in 1971. ArtsBeat: Buddy Guy, Dustin Hoffman and Led Zeppelin Among New Kennedy Center Honorees 2012-09-12T15:00:27Z “No one knew or cared, either in this country or in the Soviet Union,” at the time he wrote the book, he said. Robert K. Massie?s Latest Subject Is Catherine the Great 2011-11-09T22:40:21Z With the Cold War still blazing, Franklin had come under fire from the American Legion for assigning articles that criticized as well as praised U.S. nuclear policy vis-à-vis the Soviet Union. Don't tape our teachers: Why surreptitious recording in the classroom isn't OK 2017-09-03T04:00:00Z Vietnam, Laos and the Soviet Union are just a few of the places you'll be visiting as you run-and-gun your way. Game On: 'Call of Duty: Black Ops' one of the year's best 2010-11-18T05:16:00Z Once the space was home to an Azerbaijani restaurant, one of many outposts in the neighborhood with roots in the former Soviet Union. A House Built on Family and Dungan Food in Brooklyn 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z No man's ever broken out of the Soviet Union's super-secret Northern Fortress. "Inception": A clunky, overblown disappointment 2010-07-15T01:01:00Z He also was viewed with anger on the right for pushing to open trade with China and the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Billionaire philanthropist David Rockefeller dies at age 101 in New York 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z Instead, hostilities weren’t formally wound down until March, when the Treaty of Moscow left the Soviet Union with slightly expanded territory and a severely damaged international reputation. ArtsBeat Blog: Soviets Invade Finland, in Real Time 2011-11-30T19:16:10Z In this barnyard tale — inspired by the horrors of the old Soviet Union — Orwell presents a timeless critique of the abuses of power. Review | Perumal Murugan said his career as a novelist was dead. Lucky for us, he was wrong. 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z Farrell was famous for dancing and lip synching for the disco band that rose to prominence in Europe, the United States and the Soviet Union with songs like "Ma Baker," "Rivers of Babylon" and "Rasputin." Boney M frontman Farrell dies in Russia: agent 2010-12-30T12:51:31Z Together with the Soviet Union, they were supposedly consigned to the dustbin of history. Is Nuclear War Inevitable? 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z They frequently performed together, and used their star status in the Soviet Union to help friends in trouble, including writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn whom they sheltered at their dacha when he was facing official reprisals. Russian opera diva Vishnevskaya dies at 86 2012-12-11T15:39:08Z A network of intermediaries ensured that the books arrived at their final destinations within the Soviet Union. Isaac Patch, who led CIA-financed program to distribute books in the Soviet Union, dies He was presumably referring to the renewed significance of the play – presciently written in 1958, but shelved until 1980 – given subsequent revelations regarding the political abuse of psychiatry to silence dissidents in the Soviet Union. Pinter's Hothouse will never cool down 2013-05-09T10:45:25Z “In Cuba, unlike Russian and the Soviet Union, there was no real formal policy on the role of artists within the revolution,” said Olga Viso, executive director. Cuban Art Outshines Politics 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z "I have no nostalgia for the Soviet Union," he says, "but in these strange and wonderful buildings, I saw the skin of a culture that fascinated me." Swansongs of a superpower: Russia's secret architecture 2011-02-07T21:31:01Z The U.S. government encouraged meatpackers to sell bellies as a cheap export to the Soviet Union and as food aid to impoverished African states. The Bacon Boom Was Not an Accident 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z Where the Soviet Union had a commissar of enlightenment, Mexico had now found its great explainers. Mexican modernism and the politics of painting 2013-06-29T07:59:01Z Released in the Soviet Union in 1956, it was a harbinger of the post-Stalin thaw and the emergence of a new postwar generation. Eldar Ryazanov, Russian Film Director Known for His Satire, Dies at 88 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z The new film "First Man" is a thrilling and tension-filled story about the 1960s race between the Soviet Union and the United States to put a man in space and then finally on the Moon. Author of Neil Armstrong biography "First Man": He understood "the place of humankind in the cosmos" 2018-12-25T05:00:00Z “There were rumors that the U.S. would step back its support and give up West Berlin to the Soviet Union,” he says. In this fascinating German museum on the Kennedys, we can all be Berliners 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z Also, Almaty has changed a great deal since I was there in 2000, just nine years after Kazakhstan left the Soviet Union. Welcomed like family in Kazakhstan 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z The historical parallels with the Spanish Inquisition and the Soviet Union are unmistakable, but Pullman says similar forces still exist today. Philip Pullman Has Made a Career Building New Worlds. He’s Not Done Yet 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z The author found his first major success with “Among the Russians,” the chronicle of a solitary 1980 road trip of 10,000 miles across the Soviet Union. At 82, legendary travel writer Colin Thubron shows no signs of slowing down 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z Putin has a dream of recreating the Soviet Union, and he considers everybody who doesn’t love Russia, but understands the Russian language, as traitors. A Humorous Ukrainian Writer, With Nothing to Laugh About 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Moderna Galerija in Ljubljana, Slovenia, began to assemble a collection of works by artists from the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and its satellites. What's On This Week Around the World 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z They were still censored in many ways, but that was one thing you saw, not just in the Soviet Union but also Eastern Europe. Diversity is making science fiction better: “We’re in a full flowering of potential” for the genre 2016-07-16T04:00:00Z After designing two exhibitions for international fairs in West Berlin, he turned his attention to the Soviet Union, where, after his 1959 show, he organized exhibitions on plastics, transportation, medicine, technical books and graphic arts. Jack Masey, Whose Exhibitions Showed American Culture to World, Dies at 91 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z When the Germans invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, the family fled to Samarkand, Uzbekistan. Ilya Kabakov, Soviet-Born Artist of Immersive Installations, Dies at 89 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z In 1988, in the era of glasnost preceding the end of the Soviet Union, Mr. Lyubimov was invited back to Moscow to help stage a production of “Boris Godunov.” Yuri Lyubimov, Experimental Stage Director, Dies at 97 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z The rise of the Let My People Go movement in the early sixties made it possible to talk about the Soviet Union in a new way. This Week in Fiction: Isaac Bashevis Singer 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z For most of the decades following India’s independence in 1947, Americans had seen it as a land of squalor and famine whose foreign policy seemed defined by an alignment with the Soviet Union. India and the United States: Two Countries That Can’t Live With Each Other or Without Each Other 2022-07-11T04:00:00Z But two photo series that emerged from trips to the Soviet Union, in the 1950s and ’70s, have a different effect. | 'Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century': ?Henri Cartier-Bresson,? a Retrospective at MoMA 2010-04-08T22:08:00Z That’s different than during the Cold War, when the number of people in the United States from the Soviet Union was smaller and many had come as ideological dissidents. “All Muslim life in America is seen through the lens of terrorism” 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z Some indicated that as early as 1947 the Soviet Union had received a shipment of “atomic research devices.” ArtsBeat: A Cold War Spy Trial, Before McCarthy and the Rosenbergs 2011-03-04T18:48:00Z As an artist who was born in the former Soviet Union, how do you view Putin’s invasion of Ukraine? A Conductor on Why He Stayed in Russia After the Invasion Began 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z Opening as the Middle East is experiencing the same political convulsions that brought down the Soviet Union, "My Perestroika" is also astoundingly timely. 'My Perestroika' offers a riveting history lesson, through Russians' eyes 2011-05-26T20:23:15Z On the geographic front, the Soviet Union never appeared on their map, and thus “Belarus, Moldova, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Armenia, Latvia, Georgia, Lithuania, and Estonia have always been independent nations.” I don’t hate millennials anymore! 2013-05-25T13:00:00Z The United States helped partly because it wanted to stop the Soviet Union from spreading communism, a form of government in which there is little or no private property, to Western Europe. Europe: 100 years of war and transformation Our success today is directly connected to the Soviet Union.” Music and Dance: A Bastion of Classical Repertory on the Asian Steppe 2011-06-07T11:30:06Z Frustrated with official opposition to his work, he emigrated from the Soviet Union in 1976 and, after a brief period in Zurich, settled in New York. Ernst Neizvestny, a Russian Sculptor Who Clashed With Khrushchev, Dies at 91 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z In retrospect, the story of an American who teaches the Soviet Union that invading Afghanistan is both immoral and strategically futile is downright embarrassing. The MAGA fever dream of "Rambo: Last Blood" 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z The site, which bore an internet suffix originally assigned to the Soviet Union, remained active Monday afternoon. Financial info on celebs, officials leaked online 2013-03-11T23:07:05Z When the Bolshoi first visited the west in the 1950s, its bravura, muscular style caused a sensation, and the company went on to become the Soviet Union's single most important cultural export. The Bolshoi ballet: a step-by-step guide to dance 2010-07-20T11:18:00Z The battle scenes by land and sea — in China, the Soviet Union and France — are of the throw-everything-on-screen-and-see-what-sticks school of war filmmaking, with scenarios cribbed from “Saving Private Ryan” and other Western genre films. Movie Review: ?My Way? From the Korean Director Kang Je-kyu 2012-04-20T00:35:48Z She said that while Americans no longer use them as “animated machines,” horses are still employed for transportation and labor elsewhere in the world, notably in Mongolia and outer regions of the former Soviet Union. Film: In ?Secretariat,? Dark Horse Is the Owner 2010-10-03T00:45:00Z The proposed Brodsky museum will be an interesting experiment because Brodsky left the Soviet Union to become part of the American intelligentsia. St Petersburg's homely tributes to Russia's great artists 2012-11-20T13:56:01Z The play offers a brief history of the former Soviet Union, a tale of 20th-century famine and war and predators, and a story of females struggling for power. Narrative; Cannibals; Once – review 2013-04-13T23:06:25Z Ronald Reagan gets no credit for the implosion of the Soviet Union. The American Past: A History of Contradictions 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z The unsanctioned performance that prompted the arrest offended many Russian Orthodox Christians, whose church has had a major revival since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Pussy Riot trial over Putin altar protest due to begin 2012-07-30T02:00:01Z “The Soviet Union at the time was having trouble with landings.” A new era in spaceflight: Back to the moon on the way to Mars 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z “He wanted to convey a sense of the variety of people living in the Soviet Union,” Segal says. The Cold War as a museum: At the Wende, one man's 100,000-piece collection finds a new home 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z Mazin knew plenty about American catastrophes but little about Chernobyl, which is in Ukraine, at the time a part of the Soviet Union. ‘The Last of Us’ Continues Craig Mazin’s Hollywood Ascent 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z Brighton Beach, though, has housed tens of thousands of Russian immigrants who came to the city after the wobble and subsequent collapse of the Soviet Union. Music to Forget Yourself With 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z By the end of World War II, Estonia found itself annexed again to its neighbor, now the Soviet Union. Embracing Estonia’s singing revolution 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z Each dish speaks to a moment in Cuba's history, like "Rice with Peanuts," which rose to popularity in Cuban homes during the 1990s, following the collapse of the Soviet Union. The minty banana salad (yes, banana) that stole my heart 2018-07-07T04:00:00Z Many are re-examining — and, in a growing number of cases, relabeling — artworks and artists from the former Russian Empire and the former Soviet Union to better reflect their Ukrainian origins. Museums Rename Artworks and Artists as Ukrainian, Not Russian 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z Its title poem, he later revealed, drew on the anxiety he felt at the height of America's cold war with the Soviet Union. Mark Strand, US poet, dies at 80 2014-11-30T05:00:00Z And musicians from the Soviet Union moved to Mongolia to help establish conservatories and theaters. Music and Dance: A Bastion of Classical Repertory on the Asian Steppe 2011-06-07T11:30:06Z In the years since, I often wondered what had become of the West’s enormous defense infrastructure since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Across Britain, Silent Relics of the Cold War 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z The Advanced Research Projects Agency, which created the internet’s forebear, ARPANET, was President Eisenhower’s response to the launch of Sputnik by the Soviet Union, he writes. Growing up 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z In the 1990s, Ferolito set out for Russia, in search of business opportunities after the fall of the Soviet Union. This American sells Russia radio airtime. The U.S. says that makes his firm a foreign agent. 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z It was part of an effort by Stalin to absorb the former Baltic countries of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia into the Soviet Union. 'Between Shades of Gray' reveals horror and hope 2011-06-04T02:35:04Z The Soviet Union had beaten the United States to every space-travel milestone, and NASA’s lunar program is like a fourth-quarter drive to score the winning touchdown. Review: ‘First Man’ Takes a Giant Leap for Man, a Smaller Step for Movies 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z Fellow travellers, yes, for they still clung to the deluded hope that the Soviet Union was a force for good in the world. Ian McEwan on Sweet Tooth – Guardian book club 2013-07-13T09:29:00Z It was a vision shared by HG Wells, who travelled to the Soviet Union to meet the Bolshevik leader. Intimations of immortality 2011-01-08T00:05:59Z The visit was part of a tour of the Soviet Union. New York Philharmonic to Perform in Georgia 2010-06-22T22:15:00Z On 11 August 1973, a TV series was premiered throughout the Soviet Union that stopped the people in their tracks. Russia's answer to James Bond: did he trigger Putin's rise to power? 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z It tells the tale of an aging scientist, Kalitin, who defects to the West after the fall of the Soviet Union. Raised on Le Carré, He Wrote a Thriller Dipped in Poison 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z Many of her colleagues went to study in the Soviet Union. A Ballerina’s Story, Once Upon a Time in Egypt 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z Not to the Soviet Union of eight decades ago, but to progressive college theater productions of the late 1970s, when breaking the fourth wall seemed like a seriously and exhilaratingly radical proposition. Theater Review: ‘Master and Margarita’ Is Staged at Bard College 2013-07-19T19:48:20Z Elizabeth, in private, reacted angrily to Morozov’s criticisms of the Soviet Union. ‘The Americans’ Season 5, Episode 1: New Wigs, New Family 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z In 1942 the Soviet Union granted amnesty to imprisoned Polish citizens, and Mr. Stanczak and his family walked and hitchhiked 2,500 miles south to Tehran, where his father joined the Polish Army in exile. Julian Stanczak, Abstract Painter, Dies at 88 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z After the Soviet Union dissolved in 1989, plutonium could be obtained by simply smashing the lock on a storage shed. Countdown to Zero: Valerie Plame at the End of the World 2010-08-02T16:30:00Z He then sent a cable to Washington giving his impressions of the Nobel-prize winning writer who was exiled from the Soviet Union in 1974 and returned to Russia 20 years later. WikiLeaks cables: Solzhenitsyn praise for Vladimir Putin 2010-12-02T07:30:00Z An exhibit dedicated to the end of the Soviet Union was on display in his honor near the Kremlin, and much fanfare was made of the anniversary on state television. Stars to honor Gorbachev at London charity bash 2011-03-30T10:42:45Z It’s analogous to removing the word “communist” from an analysis of the Soviet Union. Sebastian Gorka says that Obama was our first celebrity president 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z "When he said the Soviet Union was an evil empire, he meant it at that time," Duggan said. Archives shows rarely seen Reagan documents in DC 2011-01-05T19:39:19Z She was one of the first western artists to tour the Soviet Union, and her singles sold millions in the US. Bonnie Tyler 'not part of 1980s' 2013-05-13T18:00:00Z As a product of the Soviet Union, Chernobyl is also the specter of another ruined collective imagining. 'Diana Thater: The Sympathetic Imagination' at LACMA stuns the senses 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z When the Soviet Union was dissolved, a new and unloved anthem was introduced, but it was such a bust that the old anthem, revised yet again, was reinstated. Blood, gore, melody 2012-08-03T14:54:00Z Professor Dodge received his doctorate in 1960, and soon afterward returned to the Soviet Union to study the role of women in the labor force. Norton Dodge, 84, Economics Professor and Art Collector, Dies 2011-11-12T06:23:51Z Hardy is here well into his broodingly impassive hunk phase in this hefty adaptation of the historical bestseller, set in the postwar Soviet Union and based on a real case. Tom Hardy's 20 best film performances – ranked! 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z Expelled from the Soviet Union in 1922, he wound up in Germany, where he worked for the Russian Scientific Institute, which Mr. Laqueur points out was part of Joseph Goebbels’s Ministry of Propaganda. Review: Walter Laqueur’s ‘Putinism’ Dissects a Canny Russian Leader 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z Growth averaged 0.3% a year in Britain, the US and France, compared with 3.1% a year in Germany, Italy, Japan and the Soviet Union. What the 21st century can learn from the 1929 crash | Larry Elliott 2017-03-04T05:00:00Z But with the end of the Soviet Union, suggests Polman, regions afflicted by war became something like charity enterprise zones, creating a massive expansion in the aid industry. Worst aid 2010-04-24T23:06:00Z The city’s Modern Art Museum was the first state institution of its kind in the Soviet Union. Next Stop: In Armenia, Art in the Shadow of Ararat 2012-10-05T15:09:14Z It helped that he had trained government agents from both the Soviet Union and the United States binding his wrists and calling for assistance. ‘The Americans’ Season 5, Episode 13: Deus ex Kimmy 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z His primary focus shifted from the threat posed by the Soviet Union to Western democracies to the one posed by China. Lev Navrozov, Literary Translator and Soviet Dissident, Dies at 88 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z But the defenders of the Republic, because the United States and other countries would not step in, took military aid from the Soviet Union. Review: Adam Hochschild’s ‘Spain in Our Hearts,’ About a Strangely Literary Conflict 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z Neither the Soviet Union nor the western powers wanted to be involved in war in China, and none of them was much interested in supplying money or goods. China's War with Japan, 1937-1945: The Struggle for Survival by Rana Mitter – review 2013-06-06T11:00:01Z Back in 1984, when the original appeared, the aggressor could only have been the Soviet Union. Why Hollywood kowtows to China 2013-03-11T14:24:26Z Sebestyen has managed to produce a first-rate thriller by detailing the cynicism and murderous ambition of the founder of the Soviet Union. 100 Notable Books of 2017 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z Atomic weapons remain an immense concern, but after the fall of the Soviet Union and the upheavals after Sept. 11, Communist aggression is hardly the most pressing worry. ‘A Walk in the Woods’ Is Revived With Kathleen Chalfant 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z He had no meaningful future in the Soviet Union. Modern Love: Breaking Free From the Nesting Doll 2013-08-01T20:02:45Z After finishing his doctorate, Mr. Reeve taught Slavic languages at Columbia and was an exchange professor in the Soviet Union in 1961, when such exchanges were rare. F. D. Reeve, Poet and Translator, Dies at 84 2013-07-08T02:48:30Z Rosenberg, who was close in age to Hitler, also edited a Nazi newspaper and oversaw the widespread theft of art by the Nazis and the brutal occupation of the Soviet Union. Tracking an Elusive Diary From Hitler’s Inner Circle 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z Other ethnic wars that followed the dissolution of the Soviet Union also brought horrors. Art Review: When Repression Was a Muse 2011-07-21T22:30:28Z It is now “more independent, more indispensable, more self-confident, and more influential than at any time since the fall of the Soviet Union”. Blind alley 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z Even after travel restrictions were lifted following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Ustvolskaya seldom left her home in St. Petersburg and traveled outside Russia only a few times for performances of her work. She’s Rising From the Depths of Soviet Music History 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z Along with the statues and busts of communist leaders, there are also oil paintings exalting the supposed "eternal friendship" between Bulgaria and the Soviet Union. Bulgaria opening museum of socialist art 2011-08-24T15:01:04Z He believed early on that that the Soviet Union and China would quarrel despite a shared belief in Communism. Cold War historian finishes epic on George Kennan 2012-04-19T17:08:13Z Animal Farm, ostensibly the tale of farm animals' revolt against their human masters, is an allegorical account of the Soviet Union's passage into Stalinism. Elton John working on Animal Farm musical 2010-07-26T10:29:00Z In 1988 a British magazine sent him to the Soviet Union to report on Sotheby’s first sale of contemporary Soviet art. The art of looking 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z How have charges of communism become a key issue in a House race, 31 years after the fall of the Soviet Union? An Orange County House race has become an Asian American culture clash 2022-11-07T05:00:00Z For them, Kennedy died resisting the forces that wanted to push him into war with the Soviet Union. Oliver Stone: how America went wrong 2013-04-15T17:07:33Z It includes no fewer than 800 photographs, covering almost all of the series he undertook before and after the fall of the Soviet Union. The Life’s Work of Photography’s Great Trickster, and Ukraine’s Greatest Artist 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z Stoppard was born in Czechoslovakia and became closely involved with the dissident movement there, as well as travelling to the Soviet Union in the 80s with Amnesty, whose value as an organisation he calls "inestimable". The battle for a free Belarus 2011-04-03T23:05:00Z The Iran-contra scandal gets a bit of attention, but only as a sidebar to the film’s main preoccupation, the arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union. Review: In ‘The Reagan Show,’ No Grenada but Lots of the Arms Race 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z With the Soviet Union forcing its system on East Germany and several neighboring countries, “an iron curtain” had descended across Europe, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill said. The Berlin Wall fell 25 years ago Reagan’s off-air joke regarding the Soviet Union, “We begin bombing in five minutes,” was a wisecrack worthy of Bill Murray. Then and Now: Hollywood Remakes as Election-Year Players 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z It was easier to find Georgian and Uzbek cuisine, both of which are very popular in the former Soviet Union — akin to Chinese or Mexican food in the United States. Explorer: Israel With a Russian Accent (and Pork) 2010-02-27T04:22:00Z In this case, it is a former tsarist general, released from prison into the utopian society of the Soviet Union, where he is told: "The fact that you are alive is a misunderstanding." Aleksei German obituary 2013-02-26T18:17:01Z When the Soviet Union and its allies invaded Czechoslovakia in 1968, WRI sent small international teams to stage protests in Moscow, Budapest, Sofia and Warsaw. Devi Prasad obituary 2011-08-09T17:54:33Z Then the Berlin Wall fell, the Soviet Union collapsed, and the heroes and villains were redefined. When Russia was the villain: How this moment echoes the era of Cold War spy novels and ‘Rocky IV’ 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z Nazarov, 52, a towering figure with a mop of gray shaggy hair, has directed several Russian TV shows and trained as an actor in the fading days of the Soviet Union. Russia has its own TV show like ‘The Americans’ — but it’s a comedy set during Trump’s presidency 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z The archive includes material relating to their defense of the Rosenbergs and of Paul Robeson, whose passport was revoked after he traveled to the Soviet Union. Portrait of a Marriage, Onstage and at the Barricades 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z "People now sometimes hear his recording of the Hymn of the Soviet Union and are surprised," she says. Singer Robeson's granddaughter recalls fight against racism 2014-05-07T01:23:34Z Tensions at the time were high between the United States and the Soviet Union, a group of nations that embraced communism. The short pledge we recite has a long story 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z Hamilton became the first country musician to perform in the the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia; he made his first visit to the UK in 1967. Country musician Hamilton dies at 77 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z All he wanted to do was write plays, but Michael Hammond took down the Soviet Union instead. This Hill staffer (maybe) saved the free world. But all he wants is a career in theater. 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z Now there are just these leftovers of it, countries that are different but not that different from the Soviet Union. The Russian Tom Clancy Is on the Front Lines for Real 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z The Soviet Union was half-a-decade gone and the United States was the planet’s “sole superpower.” We are the empire: Military interventions, “Star Wars” and how we’re the real aliens 2016-07-17T04:00:00Z Those are the broad outlines of a play that shows post-colonial ideals poisoned by tribal conflicts, predatory international bankers and the competing interests of the Soviet Union and US. A Season in the Congo – review 2013-07-17T12:13:27Z In the book, Zuleikha, a slender 30-year-old Muslim woman, lives in a Tatar village in the Soviet Union in the early 1930s, a near-slave to her abusive husband and cruel mother-in-law. Russian novel tells story of survival, love in Stalin’s camp 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z They viewed the conflict through a Cold War prism, instead of a regional rivalry, and, ranting in the Oval Office, nudged each other toward a nuclear “final showdown” with the Soviet Union. How Do You Explain Henry Kissinger? 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z But when Wells revisited the Soviet Union in 1934 – this time to talk with Stalin – he discovered that Moura had been in the country on at least three occasions in the past year. Intimations of immortality 2011-01-08T00:05:59Z The haunting "Roads to Moscow" tells the story, from a Soviet soldier's perspective, of Nazi Germany's ultimately unsuccessful invasion of the Soviet Union. History man Al Stewart digs deep for musical 'time passages' 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z But by the final year of his two terms in office, Reagan was touring Moscow with Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Communist leader of the Soviet Union. Donald Trump needs his “Day After” moment: We’ve heard reckless rhetoric from a Republican before — then Ronald Reagan negotiated nuclear disarmament 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z They were living in Riga, then part of the Soviet Union and now the capital of Latvia, when Mrs. Bohm visited them for a reunion in 1960. Dorothy Bohm, a Roving and Enduring Photographer, Dies at 98 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z He spoke about a patriotic Chinese composer who is a favorite of Mr. Xi — Xian Xinghai, who was stranded in the Soviet Union during World War II and died in Moscow. Now Playing in China: Putin-Aligned Artists Shunned in the West 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z The series had a curious afterlife in the chaos that marked the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Russia's answer to James Bond: did he trigger Putin's rise to power? 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z They’re selling arms to the enemy because East Germany is dead broke, in debt to the West, cut loose by Mikhail Gorbachev’s Soviet Union. Review: ‘Deutschland 86,’ an East-West Thriller, Looks South 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z Lenin commissioned the tower to adorn his new Soviet Union during a period of romantic optimism. Lord Foster fires up campaign to save rusting Russian radio tower 2010-04-15T17:40:00Z Despite a brutal schedule that included the first tour by an American orchestra in the Soviet Union, in 1956, he stayed through 1962. For the Conductor Charles Munch, Virtuosity Meant Taking Risks 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z In one of his earliest official decisions, the future leader of the Soviet Union decreed a system of tickets to the single toilet. Lenin and the Russian Spark 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z All those years that we didn’t know what was going on in the Soviet Union because of the Cold War? Hogzilla and Other Halloween Programs 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z The country, once part of the Soviet Union, straddles the boundary between eastern Europe and western Asia. Coming soon to two mostly Muslim countries: Trump hotels 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z Vadim Neselovskyi, who was born in Odesa, Ukraine, was a classical prodigy in his youth, when his home country was still part of the Soviet Union. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z Kancheli, who lives in Antwerp and is composer-in-residence for the Royal Flemish Philharmonic, is best known in the former Soviet Union for writing film music. Chorale, violist to join SSO for water works 2013-03-27T21:08:35Z In 1930, Reich moved to Germany, whose communist party was the largest outside the Soviet Union. Sex-Pol: Essays, 1929-1934 by Wilhelm Reich – review 2013-05-01T07:00:02Z Bouts of anguished soul-searching filled the op-ed pages of European and American newspapers, as columnists asked how a free society could hope to match the steely strategic determination of the prospering, successful Soviet Union. Red star rising 2010-08-06T23:04:00Z Accordingly, it was when Mr. Gorbachev first lifted Soviet censorship and allowed reality to burst through the Communists’ alternate reality that the Soviet Union crumbled. Review: ‘The Invention of Russia’ Examines the Post-Soviet Path 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z In the show’s timeline, 1985, the year Mikhail Gorbachev became the leader of the Soviet Union, is just around the bend. From Veep to House of Cards: what to expect from TV shows ending in 2018 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z With the Nazis’ rise to power, the Brecht family left Germany in 1933 on an odyssey that took them to Austria, Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden and the Soviet Union before they settled in Los Angeles. Barbara Brecht-Schall, Guardian of Father’s Plays, Dies at 84 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z Gubaidulina and Meshchaninov made their way west in the early 1990s, in the wake of the chaos following the Soviet Union’s dissolution. At 90, a Composer Is Still Sending Out Blasts 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z Coast Guard vessel off Martha’s Vineyard in an effort to defect from the Soviet Union. ‘The Jump’ Review: A Seaman’s Story of a Daring Escape 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z Starting in the 1960s, the blond, blue-eyed film star’s hero roles made Mr. Vidov a top box office draw in the Soviet Union. Oleg Vidov, popular Soviet actor who defected during Cold War, dies at 73 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z I was born in 1975 and remember the repression that was in the Soviet Union. A Russian Pianist Speaks Out Against the War From Home 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z Her winning song, “1944,” made apparent reference to the abuses perpetrated by the Soviet Union in the region during Stalin’s rule. Ukraine Bars Russia’s Eurovision Entrant 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z An estimated 2.5m items were sent to the Soviet Union, leaving museums in eastern Germany almost bare. Russia-Germany row over war loot mars exhibition opening 2013-06-21T18:32:00Z It all began when the Cuban economy collapsed with the fall of the Soviet Union. A Rush of Americans, Seeking Gold in Cuban Soil 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z The sculpture is bound for Kiev; the last time the Chapmans exhibited in the former Soviet Union, militant religious groups got upset. Dinos Chapman's debut album: here comes the Luftbobler! 2013-02-19T18:24:32Z THE Soviet Union was “the prison of information” and Vladimir Putin’s Russia risks becoming one too. Knowledge is power 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z Such close state scrutiny reminded Mr. Mansky a bit too much of life in the Soviet Union. In ‘Under the Sun,’ a Documentary Masked and Unmasked 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z The selection includes anti-American posters from 1970s Vietnam and anti-Western ones from the Soviet Union. Galleries: ‘Is It Propaganda? Or Is It Political Art?’ This has been spectacularly true of cinema in the Soviet Union and Iran. The best art is born from democracy 2010-04-07T11:48:00Z When Philip, Elizabeth, and Tuan have dinner with the dissident family, the father, who’s just arrived from the Soviet Union, tells appalling stories about Russian corruption and food shortages. Who Is Loving “The Americans”? 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z Nobody wrote music like this in 1968, not in the Soviet Union, not in Western Europe. An American Leads the Odesa Philharmonic to Berlin 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z Khil was a top Soviet performer during the 1960s and the 1970s, but his star began to fade in the late 1980s as musical tastes changed and the Soviet Union opened up to the West. Soviet crooner 'Mr Trololo' dies in Russia 2012-06-04T11:16:09Z “Your visit would have great political as well as musical value and would help dramatize close tie between United States and Soviet Union in their common fight,” Toscanini wrote. Mahler Said What to Whom? 2011-02-03T22:00:06Z With every year since the breakup of the Soviet Union, it has become harder to find people who love ballet with that kind of obsessive passion. Designated Cheering Spectators Thrive at the Bolshoi Theater 2013-08-14T21:19:18Z In the Soviet Union, she was a psychiatric social worker. ‘A Backpack, a Bear and Eight Crates of Vodka,’ a Memoir 2014-11-23T05:00:00Z If China fought America to a bloody stalemate on the ground, in the air the Soviet Union’s best pilots fought its air force to a draw. Tyrant and truant 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z Read my book and you’ll see why the Soviet Union broke up. Why Paul Theroux Loves Cape Cod 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z Russian was our connection, because we grew up in the Soviet Union. A Georgian Competing on Estonia's Behalf 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z Fear of the Soviet Union made us accept whatever military budgets Reagan threw before us, no matter it could be better used at home. What '80s kids also remember: On stranger danger, Satanic panic and generations of trickle-down fear 2023-10-21T04:00:00Z The Berlin-Karlshorst Museum, on the site of the German army’s formal surrender at the end of World War II, commemorates what it describes as Germany’s “brutal war of extermination” against the Soviet Union. For This Museum, Russian-German Collaboration Got Awkward 2023-06-26T04:00:00Z The Soviet Union suffered 65 percent of all the Allied deaths in the war; by comparison, the U.S. and Britain accounted for 2 percent each. It Sucked to Go Through World War II. Inferno Will Remind You Why. 2011-11-09T10:00:54Z A graduate in human geography, Roberts's major works, Motherland, photographed in the former Soviet Union, and We English, captured people in places that mattered to them. Election artist focuses on bigger picture 2010-03-26T18:45:00Z In the first issue, Swann is asked to stop a British scientist from defecting to the Soviet Union and, in the process, helping them expand their nuclear weapons program. John Byrne crafts 'period piece' set in Cold War 2011-07-13T10:05:08Z It describes the successful use of non-violent strategies to bring about political change, from the pro-democracy movements in the former Soviet Union to the present-day pro-democracy movements in the Middle East. Fantasy art school: artists reveal their dream teachers 2012-06-12T10:26:45Z Mr. Dean’s book will remind people of why Nixon deserves so unflattering a historical reputation, despite the opening to China and détente with the Soviet Union. In ‘The Nixon Defense,’ John W. Dean Returns to Watergate 2014-07-27T04:00:00Z But one day, for reasons he is hard pressed to explain, he drew a map illustrating the collapse of the Soviet Union and posted it on the World Wide Web, which was then new. ?The Great Big Book of Horrible Things,? by Matthew White 2011-11-08T13:00:00Z The ends of the Cold War and the Soviet Union are in the offing. Review: Both ‘The Americans’ and the U.S.S.R. Will End. Can This Marriage Be Saved? 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z Finland fought alongside Germany against the Soviet Union, a fact often left out of history books. Read Your Way Through Helsinki 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z Its contradictions may have been captured best in Truman Capote’s “The Muses Are Heard,” his 1956 dispatch from a touring company’s historic stop in the Soviet Union. Review: ‘Porgy and Bess’ Returns to a New Opera Landscape 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z In 1991 a court in Moscow ordered the library turned over to the Chabad organization; the Soviet Union then collapsed, and the judgment was set aside by the Russian authorities. Dispute Over Jewish Archive Derails Russian Art Loans to U.S. 2011-02-02T15:26:56Z He doubted the sustainability of China's authoritarian regime and warned that if China achieved its global aspirations, it would resemble the former Soviet Union. US embassy cables: Dalai Lama says prioritise climate change over politics in Tibet 2010-12-16T21:30:22Z Mariinsky general and artistic director Gergiev took his company on numerous world tours after the collapse of the Soviet Union crimped state funding. Director James Cameron to broadcast 3D 'Swan Lake' live from Russia 2013-05-13T15:37:20Z The same year, Boney M became the first Western music group invited by a Soviet leader, Leonid Brezhnev, to perform in the Soviet Union. Pop singer Bobby Farrell dies on tour in Russia 2010-12-30T13:44:07Z They are woven into “Untraceable,” too, along with his lingering ambivalence about Russia and the fall of the Soviet Union. Raised on Le Carré, He Wrote a Thriller Dipped in Poison 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z In the 1990s, K.G.B. documents confirmed what British intelligence agencies had long suspected: Ms. Tudor-Hart, who was also a photographer, had been a spy for the Soviet Union. Wolfgang Suschitzky, Photographer and Cinematographer, Dies at 104 2016-10-08T04:00:00Z The fact is that the entire Soviet Union lived in this kind of double reality or multiple realities, and everybody was aware of it, but very few people actually questioned it. Russia and Ukraine Have Long Been This Filmmaker’s Subject 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z Liatoshynsky, a composer with an intensely volatile style, wrote music that didn’t comply with the Soviet Union’s aesthetic of socialist realism. Review: Protecting and Defending Ukraine’s Cultural Identity 2023-03-19T04:00:00Z She lived in Ukraine when it was part of the former Soviet Union and "suffered" a great deal, he said. Ukrainian-American pastor in VA shares haunting image of people huddled in Ukraine basement 2022-02-26T05:00:00Z The Soviet Union broke up when he was 15, but Khrzhanovsky still considers himself a “Soviet person”, he says. Inside Dau, the 'Stalinist Truman Show': 'I had absolute freedom – until the KGB grabbed me' 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z And I clearly felt the tremors in far-away Moscow as the United States and China now made common cause against the Soviet Union; the tectonic balance of power was shifting beneath our feet. A Witness Sees History Restaged and Rewritten 2011-02-11T19:47:04Z He was born Irakly George Areshidze in Georgia in the former Soviet Union; his maternal grandfather was a senior official in the Communist Party. And You Thought Your Family Was Modern 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z At the height of the Cold War, the win helped thaw the icy rivalry between the United States and Soviet Union. Bush: Van Cliburn spread peace through music 2013-03-03T21:46:08Z In the 1950s, it was the perceived threat posed by communism that obsessed many U.S. officials and empowered the Soviet Union, she writes. Author peels back curtain on Cold War in Caribbean 2011-04-01T18:01:12Z Born and raised in the Soviet Union, Kaprov moved to Israel 30 years ago, where he embarked on a career in photography. Capturing a 21st-Century War With 19th-Century Technology 2023-07-20T04:00:00Z Applebaum, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author of books on the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, explores why important individuals, particularly intellectuals, make decisions that undermine democracy. 50 notable works of nonfiction in 2020 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z Blond and blue-eyed, Mr. Vidov became a top box office draw in the Soviet Union starting in the 1960s, usually in hero roles. Oleg Vidov, the ‘Soviet Robert Redford,’ Dies at 73 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z The Soviet Union began to seem to him a “vast, sterile concentration camp … a form of hell.” A Double Portrait of Two of the Cold War’s Most Successful Double Agents 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z Examples include the breakup of the Soviet Union and the race for control of oil deposits in the newly independent Russian states. Books of The Times: ?The Quest? by Daniel Yergin - Review 2011-09-20T12:00:00Z And that exists in the former Soviet Union, it exists in this country and it exists in other countries. "Crazies" remake influenced by post-9/11 world 2010-03-02T04:09:00Z If capitalism had remained unchanged, the Soviet Union would at this point have looked like a reasonable, if tyrannous and polluted, version of the earthly paradise. Red star rising 2010-08-06T23:04:00Z Instead, he might have reached out to the Soviet Union as if they were peaceful extraterrestrials, Close Encounters–style. Can you imagine a world without Star Wars, Harry Potter or Oasis? 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z Mr. Soloway compared the developments in recent days to the artistic isolation of the Soviet Union. Russian Artists Lose the Tools of Their Trades as Companies Pull Out 2022-03-15T04:00:00Z Although he was inspired by full-scale abuses in the Soviet Union, Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany, he was also borrowing from the methods of communication control he had witnessed in Britain. Why Orwell’s ‘1984’ matters so much now 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z Through the years, the city came under Polish, Austrian, German and Soviet control, before Ukraine regained independence after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. To House Refugees, Lviv Wants to Make Beautiful Buildings That Last 2022-05-31T04:00:00Z After the Soviet Union crumbled, funding was cut and the students vanished as if they had never been here. A Cuban Island That Has Played Both Paradise and Prison 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z With American power at its apogee after the fall of the Soviet Union, their aim was to ensure American primacy, to establish what the Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer had called America’s unipolar moment. Why the United States Invaded Iraq 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z Trained as a physician, Mr. Rybolovlev made his fortune in the production and export of potash fertilizer after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The Billionaire, the Picassos and a $30 Million Gift to Shame a Middleman 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z The American military had desperately wanted the German scientists’ expertise, and civilian leaders were equally adamant that they not fall into the hands of our new opponent: the Soviet Union. How Nazi scientists and their wind tunnels ended up in D.C.’s suburbs 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z Washington Senator Henry Jackson, Democrat, said that the arrest raised doubts that the Soviet Union really wanted détente with the West. Alexander Solzhenitsyn is arrested: From the archive, 13 Feb 1974 2013-02-13T07:00:00Z Do people in Russia today live as people in the Soviet Union lived under Stalin? Q&A: Masha Gessen Sees a Bleak Future for Putin's Russia 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z “This man just made me as a dancer,” Mr. Baryshnikov explains in another video, an interview from 1974, when he defected to Canada from the Soviet Union. Baryshnikov Packs Up His Memories in Boxes 2011-10-05T21:45:13Z He, Luba and their son, Simon, then 6, were part of the great wave of Jewish families who left the Soviet Union after emigration rules were relaxed in the 1970s. Russian New Year’s Eve: Christmas, the Fourth of July and Thanksgiving, All Rolled Into One 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z And for them, it wasn’t a pretty artisanal fantasy: with the chronic food shortages in the Soviet Union, she said, “They needed that food to live.” Russian New Year’s Eve: Christmas, the Fourth of July and Thanksgiving, All Rolled Into One 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z Before he went, he took Russian language lessons from a Russian Jew who had fled the Soviet Union in 1989; she became his wife. This American sells Russia radio airtime. The U.S. says that makes his firm a foreign agent. 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z But after World War II, Harry Truman responded to Stalin's Soviet Union with the doctrine of global containment. 'The Emergency State:' overreaching presidents, from Roosevelt to Obama 2012-02-23T21:35:38Z He is revered among some in what was the Soviet Union for his role as war leader. Tank battles and Stalin selfies at Belarussian war museum 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z I admire much of what Samantha Power has done and written, but I take exception to her affirmation of George H. W. Bush’s and James Baker’s handling of the fall of the Soviet Union. The Marshall Plan, Netflix and Other Letters to the Editor 2020-10-09T04:00:00Z Whether in the United States or even the Soviet Union, their proper ethic was realistic, conservative and prudent, more wary of going to war than their reckless or crusading civilian masters. Should We Worry About Trump’s Fawning Admiration of the Military? 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z Set in Tbilisi, the capital of a newly independent Georgia — long part of the Soviet Union — in 1992, this coming-of-age drama is mired in the region’s confusion, anger and violence. ‘In Bloom’: Coming-of-age tale unfolds during time of turmoil 2014-03-20T21:37:20Z Mr. Hamilton also performed in South Africa and, in the 1970s, in the Soviet Union, where he claimed to be the first American country musician to perform. George Hamilton IV, 77, Country Singer 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z In the creaky Soviet Union supplies are scarce. Newly Released Books 2011-04-20T22:05:44Z Despite having surrendered the Soviet Union's decades-long world chess supremacy, Spassky does the unthinkable, standing up and applauding his opponent on stage. 'Pawn Sacrifice' film captures chess drama of Fischer-Spassky face-off 2014-09-12T04:00:00Z Meanwhile the magazine was also attracting attention from more established figures on the left, who saw it as raising fundamental questions that had been off the table since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Bhaskar Sunkara, Editor of Jacobin Magazine 2013-01-20T22:57:50Z In the United States, most sex slaves come from South America, Southeast Asia and the former Soviet Union, but even vulnerable Americans are drawn into this sometimes lethal trade. ‘The Guest Room’ review: A bachelor party devolves into murder 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z The other concerns her camp counselor experiences in the last days of the Soviet Union, after her first year at college. Books of The Times: ‘The Scent of Pine,’ by Lara Vapnyar 2013-12-31T21:47:12Z Once forgotten in Russia, nearly 30 of his books have been republished in his home country since the fall of the Soviet Union. Review: Walter Laqueur’s ‘Putinism’ Dissects a Canny Russian Leader 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z Ms. Ozernoy immigrated to the United States from the former Soviet Union in 1986, at the height of the Cold War, when she was 8 years old. The Solar System Winked 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z Josef Stalin, who trained as a cleric, appealed to the nation when the Nazis invaded the Soviet Union using the biblical “brothers and sisters” and enlisted the church as an ally during the war. Portrait of a country 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z She told him she could no longer enter the Soviet Union for fear of arrest – to go back would be to risk her freedom, even her life. Intimations of immortality 2011-01-08T00:05:59Z In keeping with this season’s campaign to highlight the socioeconomic disparities between America and the Soviet Union, Sofia was overly grateful when told that the F.B.I. would pay for dental work. ‘The Americans,’ Season 5, Episode 8: The Humanization of Elizabeth 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z That tradition, Nuut said, went into something of a deep freeze when Estonia became part of the Soviet Union in 1940. Estonian musician finds her voice digging in the library stacks 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z He popularized the term “Reagan Doctrine” to describe President Reagan’s support of anti-communist movements in Africa, Asia, and Latin America to counter the Soviet Union and end the Cold War. Charles Krauthammer, Pulitzer-winning columnist, reveals terminal illness: ‘My fight is over.’ 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z After allowing Yiddish writers and intellectuals to thrive in the Soviet Union, Stalin grew paranoid and decided that Soviet Jews posed a danger to his regime. Tragic 'Twenty-Seventh Man' brings power of the pen to bear 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z He dismisses as “gobbledygook” Trotsky’s explanation that he did not want a senior post because people would say the Soviet Union was being ruled by a Jew. ‘Stalin: Paradoxes of Power’ by Stephen Kotkin 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z The film portrays Oswald as defiant, lured by the ideal of social equality to the Soviet Union where he can start anew as a young man and shed the stigma of a social outcast. Fifty years after Dallas, 'Killing Kennedy' taps into life of Oswald 2013-11-07T13:03:08Z The Soviet Union was rumored to be conducting research into parapsychology, specifically ESP and “remote viewing” — meaning the capacity for someone to “see” events on the other side of the world, using only their mind. Best of 2018: Aliens at the dinner table 2018-12-25T05:00:00Z Media fact checkers such as my colleague Glenn Kessler don’t usually critique hopeful guesses because miracles, like the collapse of the Soviet Union or my birdie on a par-5 last week, sometimes happen. Turning around schools with low achievement rates never seem to work 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z And, after that night, was as gone from me as, by winter, the Soviet Union was from the world. Haunted by the perfect kiss: It should have been her, and then it was 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z Raised in Moscow in the final years of the crumbling Soviet Union, she recalls standing in a bread line when she was 3. Up Close : Maria Baibakova Is Finding Her Place in the Art World 2013-07-24T18:31:09Z Anyone who has spent time in the former Soviet Union will recognize the noxious mix of neglect, deception and bureaucratic inanity on which the camp runs. Books of The Times: ‘The Scent of Pine,’ by Lara Vapnyar 2013-12-31T21:47:12Z It was first issued in English in 1988, in a poor and heavily censored version sponsored by the Soviet Union. Russian Women Speak Up About the Front Lines and the Home Front 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z In another, of the crucifixion, the head of Christ was replaced by the Order of Lenin medal, the highest award of the Soviet Union. Moscow curators face 3 years in prison 2010-07-07T12:28:00Z They will move west through Europe, starting in the Soviet Union with Shostakovich’s Third Quartet. Opera & Classical Music Listings for Oct. 10-16 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z It’s a place where the chess culture is like it used to be in the Soviet Union. Garry Kasparov Says We Are Living in Chaos, But Remains an Incorrigible Optimist 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z But as the Soviet Union disintegrated in the late 1980s, old ethnic feuds turned bloody, and both ethnicities were subjected to pogroms and persecution at the hands of the other. Explorer: Off the Map in Nagorno-Karabakh, a Region in the Southern Caucasus 2012-09-21T17:31:32Z “The magnitude of Gorbachev’s personal contributions to the dramatic change, not just in the Soviet Union itself but throughout Eastern Europe, can scarcely be exaggerated.” Europe’s Glorious Years of Peace and Prosperity 2019-05-04T04:00:00Z Alexievich’s latest book, "Secondhand Time," deals with the demise of the Soviet Union, revealing a painful mix of oppression and suffering — but also a certain Russian pride. 6 intriguing new nonfiction books 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z Over the next two decades, he made many trips to the Soviet Union, often under authentic cover of scholarly research. Norton Dodge, 84, Economics Professor and Art Collector, Dies 2011-11-12T06:23:51Z For readers in the Soviet Union, where Hemingway was highly popular, he was no doubt waiting for Stalin's secret police. In the Fog – review 2013-04-27T23:07:06Z Given Vladimir Putin’s remarks this week about “humiliations” endured by Russia from the seemingly overnight collapse of the Soviet Union, “In Bloom” is particularly timely. ‘In Bloom’: Coming-of-age tale unfolds during time of turmoil 2014-03-20T21:37:20Z Armenia, which became an independent republic in 1991 after the fall of the Soviet Union, is a small, landlocked nation in the southwest Caucasus, at the crossroads of Europe and Asia. My Armenia 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z Increasingly penalised for his open contempt for Soviet officialdom, he applied to emigrate in 1974, at a time when the Soviet Union was relaxing emigration rules for Jews in exchange for technology from the West. From refugee to maestro 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z Mr. Vidov’s arrival in the United States got him blackballed in the Soviet Union. Oleg Vidov, the ‘Soviet Robert Redford,’ Dies at 73 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z Tuan’s repeated tales of hardship in Vietnam started to get as tiresome as Alexei’s complaints about life in the Soviet Union. ‘The Americans’ Season 5, Episode 3 Recap: More Than This 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z When you were growing up in the Soviet Union, was there a point where you became disillusioned? Russia and Ukraine Have Long Been This Filmmaker’s Subject 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z Among his subjects of concern aired in the Times were cooking, the Third Programme, fresh air on trains and relations with the Soviet Union. A stage of her own: Elisabeth Scott and the Royal Shakespeare Theatre 2011-01-29T00:06:16Z May Day was a national holiday in the Soviet Union. Bad Cheer: The Holiday Exchange Precipitating ‘Bridge of Spies’ 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z Stalin, who died in 1953, remains a divisive issue in the former Soviet Union. Georgia's Stalin museum to focus on his atrocities 2012-04-09T15:19:11Z As the founding generation reached retirement age, an influx of immigrants from the Soviet Union, many of them highly accomplished string players, left their mark on the orchestra. Critic’s Notebook: Zubin Mehta, of the Israel Philharmonic, on That Nation’s Affairs 2014-03-19T22:01:40Z He refers to the Soviet Union as “a society in which Jews are turned into non-persons,” whereas, “In America, I found a home, justice, dignity… baseball.” ArtsBeat: ‘The Americans’ Recap: The Country They Love and Hate 2014-03-20T19:30:37Z First, Britain and the Soviet Union invaded Iran in 1941 and deposed Shah Reza Pahlavi, worried about his overtures to Adolf Hitler in Germany. Iran’s Iraj Pezeshkzad, who wrote ‘My Uncle Napoleon,’ dies 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z The missiles come again and again in Kharkiv — the nucleus of the Ukrainian avant-garde in the early days of the Soviet Union. The War in Ukraine Is the True Culture War 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z “Our families instilled so much trauma about the Soviet Union in us, that we felt like we lived it ourselves,” said Kuperman. WATCH: How to survive the United States of Russia 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z Over his bed is a painting celebrating electrification in the Soviet Union. Jordan Peterson, Custodian of the Patriarchy 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z The bombs, he stated in his memoir, “Molotov Remembers: Inside Kremlin Politics,” were “not aimed at Japan but rather at the Soviet Union.” Long After the Bomb, Its Story Finds a New Audience 2020-10-12T04:00:00Z Because there is this unique and fantastic and colossal experience of fighting against the Soviet Union and winning. Russia and Ukraine Have Long Been This Filmmaker’s Subject 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z But that first moonwalk is what clinched America’s place as space leader after the Soviet Union claimed the first satellite, first spaceman, first spacewoman and first spacewalker. On Apollo 11 anniversary, people share their memories and thoughts But the Egyptian government was now friendly with the Soviet Union, and new teachers arrived. A Ballerina’s Story, Once Upon a Time in Egypt 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z There's a story from the 1950s about the US ambassador to the Soviet Union being given a wooden US seal by some Russian schoolkids. An intelligence expert's view on The Americans 2013-06-16T18:00:04Z The Soviet Union, which wasn’t friendly with the other Allies, controlled the fourth. The Berlin Wall fell 25 years ago Weinberg, a Warsaw native, escaped to the Soviet Union on foot in 1939, but his parents and younger sister died in the Holocaust. Recognition for a Composer Who Captured a Century’s Horrors 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z The war’s huge place in the national psyche is understandable, given the Soviet Union lost more than 20 million citizens during the war years. Russian war film set to open amid controversy over accuracy of events 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z Eventually the five men of the movie’s title arrived in Detroit after defecting or using other means of leaving the Soviet Union, and the Red Wings embarked on a rousing comeback. ‘The Russian Five’ Review: Out of the Iron Curtain, Onto the Ice 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z First of all, because the fifth representative of the Soviet literature got an award — Alexievich started to publish in the Soviet Union,” Bykov said. Svetlana Alexievich wins Nobel Prize in literature 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z The Soviet Union of the 1920s was an impoverished state dotted with institutes of labour, health and maternity clinics, mental health services, housing offices and countless censuses. Fitbitters of the world, unite! How the Soviets invented fitness tracking 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z The starkest piece is Maxim Kantor’s large etching “The Lonely Crowd,” made just as the Soviet Union collapsed. In the galleries: The selling of the Cold War and the Red Menace 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z The ensuing superpower rivalry with the Soviet Union increases the military and economic might of the United States still further. Pankaj Mishra Challenges America’s Self-Deceptions 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z The Soviet Union may have gone, but the reverence for the state as an almost sacred force in Russia remains. Portrait of a country 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z He moved to the Soviet Union at the start of World War II, and later returned to teach at Warsaw University before being exiled for political reasons in 1968. Sociologists Bauman, Touraine win Spanish award 2010-05-27T16:31:00Z When Reagan was negotiating nuclear arms agreements with the Soviet Union during his Cold War presidency, he said he'd be guided by an old Russian proverb: "Trust but verify." Deal averts lawsuit that threatened to stall Academy Museum of Motion Pictures 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z As tensions with the Soviet Union began to heat up, the Army was expanding the draft, and Black college students, unlike most white students, were often not exempt. Don Lewis, Unsung Pioneer of Electronic Music, Dies at 81 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z Photograph: AFP/ Getty Images As the Soviet Union unravelled in the 1980s, eastern Europeans returned to the rosary in their thousands. Strange Rebels: 1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century by Christian Caryl – review 2013-07-07T07:01:13Z "The Snow Forest," a book set in mid-20th century Russia, is based on a family's decision to move to the Siberian Taiga in an effort to flee the Soviet Union. Eat, pray, brand yourself accurately 2023-06-24T04:00:00Z In the 1930s, Orwell rightly took the left to task for transferring its patriotism to the Soviet Union. Margaret Thatcher never liked her country 2013-04-14T07:00:00Z At the time communism became a political force, and US film-makers reflected a national anxiety about the Soviet Union. Russian baddies are back 2014-03-08T01:08:54Z For Alima Bissenova, assistant professor of anthropology at Nazarbayev University in Astana, the building boom was a logical trajectory given the direction Kazakhstan had taken since the dissolution of the Soviet Union. In Kazakhstan, a Shimmering Skyline on the Steppe 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z As its chief trading partner and source of cheap oil, the Soviet Union propped up an unsustainable agricultural system. A Rush of Americans, Seeking Gold in Cuban Soil 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z Some political commentators say Putin is motivated by a desire to restore the Soviet Union. What It’s Like to Play Putin in ‘Patriots’ 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z With economic aid from the Soviet Union, Cuba built a healthcare system that was the envy of the developing world, though some of those advances have been lost since the communist bloc collapsed. Cuban doctors proud to risk lives in mission to halt Ebola 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z The burst of new visions in the Soviet Union would, by the mid-1930s, give way to authoritarian rigidity. The Artists Who Redesigned a War-Shattered Europe 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z Stalin was repudiated by the Soviet Union after his death. Russian cinema defies official ban to screen Stalin satire movie 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z A few years later, Radio Liberty and Radio Free Europe’s book ventures were folded into the CIA-funded International Literary Center, which continued operations until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Isaac Patch, who led CIA-financed program to distribute books in the Soviet Union, dies Here now is her newest, “Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets,” a sprawling examination of life in Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the rise of a feral brand of capitalism. Review: In ‘Secondhand Time,’ Voices From a Lost Russia 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z The book opens with a citation from Russian President Vladimir V. Putin: “Whoever wants the Soviet Union back has no brain. Whoever doesn’t miss it has no heart.” Emmanuel Carrère’s New Book Profiles Edward Limonov 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z The Soviet Union won the 1972 Olympic match with a last gasp basket after a controversial decision to replay the last three seconds. We are the champions: basketball film wows Russians before election 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z Palle left Denmark on March 1, 1928, and as he traveled by rail and steamship the world press chronicled his every move, through England, Scotland, Canada, Japan, the Soviet Union, Poland and Germany. Palle Huld, Danish Actor Said to Be Model for Tintin, Dies at 98 2010-12-06T06:51:00Z He also supervised the coverage of world summits throughout the world, including the historic meeting between the leaders of China and the Soviet Union in 1989. Former CBS News vice president Lane Venardos dies 2011-08-20T23:31:05Z That effort was to beat the Soviet Union at all costs. 'If anyone can Maga, it is Nasa': how First Man put a rocket up the politics of space 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z That changed when the old Soviet Union broke up. Review | Are these the most beautiful textiles in the world? 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z The "BlackBox Cold War" exhibition uses posters, newspapers, videos and other artifacts to narrate the conflict from Germany's post-World War II division to the collapse of the Soviet Union. New Cold War exhibit opens at Checkpoint Charlie 2012-09-20T12:39:15Z On April 2, the Bolshoi performed Aram Khachaturian’s “Spartacus,” a 1956 ballet about “the liberation of the oppressed,” Mr. Morrison said, meant to chime with “the ideological principles of the Soviet Union.” War Brings New Iron Curtain Down on Russia’s Storied Ballet Stages 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z A family from the former Soviet Union embarks on an American road trip in a novel that is a joy to read. 100 Notable Books of 2016 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z Ms. Alonso continued to dance, however, and the next year made her historic guest appearance in the Soviet Union. Alicia Alonso, Star of Cuba’s National Ballet, Dies at 98 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z It bears an Internet suffix originally assigned to Soviet Union. Feds investigate leak of first lady's credit info 2013-03-12T17:43:13Z The Germans looted the museum during their occupation, but much of what they stole was taken from them by the advancing Red Army, and sent to the Soviet Union. Poland Threatens Prison for Man Refusing to Return Nazi-Looted Art 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z Which would we like him to read aloud, he asks, Pocahontas or The Fall of the Soviet Union? Jeffrey Lewis ? review 2011-01-20T17:47:52Z Moura would surely not have bothered with this deception if two years earlier she had confessed to being a regular visitor to the Soviet Union in the pay of OGPU. David Lodge on HG Wells 2011-03-11T10:00:01Z His parents, vigorous Zionists who had a subscription, were very active in helping Soviet Jews immigrate to Israel, and had frequently traveled to the Soviet Union. Benjamin Balint?s Inside Look at Podhoretz?s Commentary 2010-06-11T22:30:00Z By the time Keynes published his epochal book, Hitler and the Nazi’s had destroyed Germany’s short Democratic experiment, while Stalin had attained autocratic control in the Soviet Union. Socialism vs. barbarism: Only social democracy can defeat the right-wing radicalism of Donald Trump 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z Reagan first declared the Soviet Union an "evil empire" in a 1983 speech before the National Association of Evangelicals in Florida. Archives shows rarely seen Reagan documents in DC 2011-01-05T18:21:08Z She found a home in Moscow’s musical scene but was kept perilously at the edges of the Soviet Union’s conservative musical establishment. At 90, a Composer Is Still Sending Out Blasts 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z But the market for Russian avant-garde art began to develop in the 1970s and flowered with the collapse of the Soviet Union. Unknown or Unreal? The Shadow on Some Russian Avant-Garde Art 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z All that her neighbors know about her is that she makes great scones; they don’t realize she’s funneling atomic secrets from Britain and the U.S. to the Soviet Union. 15 Books to Watch For in September 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z In her introduction to the collection, Summers describes what a revelation it was, after the fall of the Soviet Union, to discover Petrushevskaya. Books to Watch Out For: October 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z “In any community where Yiddish was spoken, their names were icons. They had special significance for Holocaust survivors, and Jews from the Soviet Union cherished them.” Claire Barry, Half of Yiddish Singing Duo, Dies at 94 2014-11-30T05:00:00Z Prokofiev had left the Soviet Union for the US and France in 1918, but was unable to resist returning in 1936, with the promise of celebrity, special privileges and freedoms. The Rest is Noise festival: The Art of Fear 2013-05-08T20:42:52Z The 14 songs performed included some of the most popular and patriotic songs of Russia and the Soviet Union, including a hymn celebrating the country's victory in World War II. Russian choir of 4,335 performs in St. Petersburg 2013-05-26T13:06:09Z It looks at the 1960s space race with the Soviet Union and the formation of NASA, told through the eyes of seven men who made up the original astronaut program. New this week: Patty Smyth, ‘The Right Stuff’ and ‘Time’ 2020-10-05T04:00:00Z More than a quarter-century after the Soviet Union dissolved, Russia remains in many respects our doppelgänger, and the cry is heard, in ever more plaintive tones, “where is the collusion?” Three Blockbuster Novels From the 1950s, and Their Remarkable Afterlife 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z Truth be told, however, the committee had its share of Communist members until — of course — June of 1941, when Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union. The Meaning of War and Other Letters to the Editor 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z The Soviet Union had had a hard war, and once its troops arrived in Europe they were getting their own back. Nazi Comb-Overs 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z Her preoccupation with the subject was rooted partly in her own history as a Jewish émigré from the former Soviet Union. Svetlana Boym, 56, Scholar of Myth and Memory, Dies 2015-08-22T04:00:00Z A few years later, Mikhail Gorbachev came to power, and conditions in the Soviet Union began to change. Modern Love: Breaking Free From the Nesting Doll 2013-08-01T20:02:45Z The American economist Brad de Long was the first to notice that for as long as the Soviet Union survived, Hobsbawm believed that humanity was progressing in some form, as a Marxist should. Fractured Times: Culture and Society in the 20th Century by Eric Hobsbawm – review 2013-03-31T08:00:06Z From the bench, Gary Springer, a Hollywood publicist wearing a vintage Soviet Union jersey, laughs. Hockey tradition at Sundance fest is the reel deal 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z Back in the day I would be scoffed at by the great "educated classes" for arriving in China or the Soviet Union unarmed with Frommer's or Lonely Planet. Frugal Traveler Blog: Readers React: TripAdvisor Feedback and Other Ways to Save on Travel 2013-01-15T20:58:20Z It bears an Internet suffix originally assigned to the former Soviet Union, and many of the pages feature unflattering pictures or taunting messages of the person featured. Celeb credit files frozen after data posted online 2013-03-13T15:45:08Z One particular toy brought back memories for Seattle’s Roman Rasskovski, 47, who grew up in the Soviet Union. It’s playtime at MOHAI’s toy exhibit 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z Two warring rural communities in the Soviet Union gather to watch a play that dramatises their dispute in allegorical form. John Mullan's 10 of the best: plays within plays 2012-05-25T21:55:09Z In the late 1940s, the Soviet Union invited Armenians living abroad to resettle in Soviet Armenia. ‘Amerikatsi’ Review: A Prisoner in His Homeland 2023-09-07T04:00:00Z He leans left, signing some of his early dispatches “Red Roth,” until he visits the Soviet Union in 1926 and recoils in disgust at what he finds. Books of The Times: ?Joseph Roth: A Life in Letters,? Edited by Michael Hofmann 2012-03-04T20:45:55Z Russia — Alexei German, a Russian film director best known for his works offering a bitter view of life in the Soviet Union under dictator Josef Stalin, died Thursday, his son said. Acclaimed Russian film director Alexei German dies 2013-02-21T14:35:11Z And then, from the vantage point of her new job, in a lefty pro-peace group that turns out to be financed by the Soviet Union, Marian is recruited as a spy against the Russians. In Simon Mawer’s ‘Tightrope,’ a Female Spy Masters the Tools of Her Trade 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z Asked a few years before to describe the collapse of the Soviet Union, Daria said: “One day the light went out and the spirits came back. And we returned to the forest.” ‘In the Eye of the Wild,’ a Haunting Memoir About Life After a Bear Attack 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z "The Cuban missile crisis was really the most dangerous time in my father's presidency, and there really was a risk that the United States and the Soviet Union might go to war," she said. Kennedy unveils Picasso painting at JFK Library 2012-10-04T23:04:08Z But he stresses the countervailing points that made Britain an effective international partner, stiffening a “jittery” America in looming collisions with the Soviet Union. How the United States Achieved World Leadership 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z Tension was high in Germany, which was divided in four and occupied by Britain, France, the United States and the Soviet Union. Europe: 100 years of war and transformation “We serve our country,” Elizabeth admits, adding that “most of what you hear about the Soviet Union isn’t true.” 'The Americans' recap: Suspicious Paige demands answers 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z More revealingly, he speaks of the time of the score’s composition: the 1950s thaw in the Soviet Union after the death of Stalin, when people were “finally able to breath and laugh and smile.” Art, Music and More to Experience at Home This Weekend 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z In the documentary, Mr. Satter explains that one of his then-Soviet sources warned him: “The Soviet Union is a land of miracles, and from time to time the KGB likes to create reality.” New documentary re-examines fall of USSR 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z In this post-9/11 era, Soviet Union no longer exists and American spy agencies are tracking non-state militant groups instead. Clancy's Cold War hero Jack Ryan gets film reboot with familiar foe 2014-01-17T23:48:35Z Ms Khrushcheva is fiercely loyal to what she sees as the positive side of the Khrushchev legacy, in a way that some all-out critics of the Soviet Union would find hard to swallow. Lost in translation 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z There are numerous Eastern European markets in the Washington suburbs, and although the Soviet Union disintegrated more than 20 years ago, it remains dominant on the stores’ shelves. Ethnic Market Scout: Go for the cured meats and fish at Eastern European stores His book is a critically acclaimed, researched examination of the final years of the arms race between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. The 2010 Pulitzer Prize winners 2010-04-12T22:55:00Z He begs Philip to let him stay, saying he will turn the results of his research over to the Soviet Union, while working in the United States. ArtsBeat: ‘The Americans’ Recap: Philip, the Platinum Spy 2014-03-27T03:00:55Z The Soviet Union and the U.S. didn't have a lot in common, but they found common ground. "It's our foundation myth": PBS' "World on Fire" challenges the World War II narrative we know 2020-04-05T04:00:00Z The history of the 20th century was bookended by the Bolshevik Revolution and the collapse of the Soviet Union, and in between came the era-defining Cold War. New Directors/New Films Series Sets Lineup 2010-02-25T17:48:00Z When the Soviet Union went back to being Russia, did the people have to learn how to speak Russian again after being Soviets all those years? Style Invitational Week 1085: Eww-venirs The following year, they were seized as property of the Soviet Union, which, desperate for foreign currency, sold them at a Berlin auction to Goudstikker in 1931. Centuries-old paintings, a Russian aristocrat, an obscure Nazi past: Why nothing about the Norton Simon 'Adam' and 'Eve' case is simple 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z “We had civil rights discussions early on and were actively supporting the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, less hostile relations with the Soviet Union, supporting the federal anti-lynching law.” Haskell Wexler, Oscar-Winning Cinematographer, Dies at 93 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z It was the largest show of public outrage since the protests in 1991 that brought down the Soviet Union. Gorbachev to Putin: Leave power peacefully 2011-12-24T17:27:00Z Birkenau, where hundreds of thousands of Jews from Poland, France, Germany, Hungary, the former Soviet Union and elsewhere were murdered, lapsed into neglect, because it didn’t fit the narrative. Abroad: Auschwitz Shifts From Memorializing to Teaching 2011-02-18T21:35:20Z Even weirder is that the Hamilton that Brooks summons seems to read National Affairs, is familiar with Weight Watchers, and knows what the Soviet Union was. David Brooks has lost it: His bizarre “Hamilton”-infused climate change column is the worst yet 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z The break-up of the Soviet Union marked a new phase in Hollywood's portrayal of evil. Russian baddies are back 2014-03-08T01:08:54Z “Habana Undergüater” imagines that the Soviet Union won the Cold War and that Americans sought refuge in Cuba, arriving on boats to try to start new lives in run-down or flooded neighborhoods. Science Fiction From Latin America, With Zombie Dissidents and Aliens in the Amazon 2023-06-10T04:00:00Z The country was embroiled in the Bolshevik Revolution, which would later pave the way for the Russian Civil War and the subsequent creation of the Soviet Union. ‘Carol of the Bells,’ a Christmas Staple From Ukraine, a Century Later 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z It was, however, his endorsement of the Soviet Union that ultimately wrecked his career in the US. Call Mr Robeson ? review 2011-01-10T22:00:01Z Dear Amy: My family and I came to America from the Soviet Union when I was a teenager. Perspective | Ask Amy: Citizen wants to become even more ‘American’ 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z “Why would we want to swap freedom for bondage?” she asked in 1951, when the Soviet Union was thought to be wooing unhappy members of racial minorities as party members. In Zora Neale Hurston’s Essays, the Nonfiction of a Nonconformist 2022-01-10T05:00:00Z He acknowledges that for all the hit-and-miss nature of the grand improvisations, an economically dominant West did contain Communism and precipitate the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. How the United States Achieved World Leadership 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z The story shows Sweden’s infiltration by malevolent agents of a country called Liquidatzia, an allegorical stand-in for the Soviet Union. Review: ‘This Can’t Happen Here,’ the Film Ingmar Bergman Tried to Bury 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z She said her Fellowship group was able "to do this lifesaving work quickly and effectively because we’ve been on the ground in the former Soviet Union for 30 years." Humanitarian aid expert reveals dramatic rescue of children from Ukraine to safety 2022-03-07T05:00:00Z Neither Western freedoms nor laws, he argued, can bring good by themselves without the fundamental values generated by the state—whether the Soviet Union or Russia. Portrait of a country 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z The train line was built by sponsoring cities throughout the Soviet Union that sent dedicated work crews, designers and architects to set their imprint in the opening wilderness. The Other Siberian Railroad 2012-08-10T18:28:44Z The title of Levan Koguashvili’s promising debut feature, “Street Days,” is a reference to the difficult period in his native Georgia after the collapse of the Soviet Union. | 'Street Days': Addicted and Adrift in Post-Soviet World 2011-01-19T22:44:25Z "I'm like the Soviet Union," he says, "which always used to claim it invented everything." Alexei Sayle: How?Stalin stole my?childhood 2011-08-11T20:00:02Z The Soviet Union might have competed with America militarily and even ideologically, but when it came to the soft power projected through high art and low commerce, it was simply no contest. Far and wide 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z Desandann first came together during Cuba's so-called "special period", the devastating economic emergency precipitated by the collapse of the Soviet Union. The Creole Choir of Cuba: the a cappella aid agency 2010-08-19T21:15:00Z And not just in India; it was a hit in the Middle East and the Soviet Union too. Critic?s Notebook: MoMA Presents a Raj Kapoor Film Festival 2012-01-05T22:50:33Z The winter of “Winter Warning” is 1989, and the Soviet Union is imploding. Just what America needs: A former New York City cop in the Oval Office 2017-10-01T04:00:00Z Lomax’s primary interest was music, and he recorded not just across the United States but also extensively in the Caribbean, Britain, Ireland, Spain, Italy and even the Soviet Union. ?The Alan Lomax Collection From the American Folklife Center? 2012-01-31T00:30:23Z Air Force surveillance program of China and the Soviet Union. Review | In the galleries: Science expands nature art, on grand and minuscule scales 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z Speaking through a translator in Russian — the language he grew up speaking in the Soviet Union — he said his wife and 14-year-old son were now in Italy. Ukrainian Dancers Find Shelter Abroad as War Rages at Home 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z In the Soviet Union, having the cash was the mere beginning of the campaign to acquire the thing. Red star rising 2010-08-06T23:04:00Z From Potsdam I crossed the Glienicke Bridge, where the United States and Soviet Union once exchanged spies, and biked a pleasant route through woods to the Wannsee, where I boarded a public ferry. Where Berlin’s infamous wall once stood, humans and nature now flourish 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z It represents half of a set his parents bought after immigrating to the U.S. from the Soviet Union, in 1978. What does a world-famous bartender drink first thing in the morning? 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z In the Soviet Union, to say you were a Jew meant to isolate yourself from society. Alexei Ratmansky’s Elective Affinity, Musically Speaking 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z He was regarded by the volunteer soldiers as a hero in the struggle against the Soviet Union. America's 'detainee 001' ? the persecution of John Walker Lindh 2011-07-10T16:08:00Z Expelled from the Soviet Union in 1974 and condemned to 20 years in exile, during which he lived in the US, he became synonymous with moral courage and defiance. Alexander Solzhenitsyn's 'last stories' will appear in English at last 2011-07-23T23:07:17Z When the Soviet Union disappeared and the "godless enemy" suddenly vanished, America fabricated a profane and offensive enemy within to compensate. How Robert Mapplethorpe went from America's pariah to America's sweetheart 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z Still, The New Yorker contacted the Soviet ambassador to the United Nations, Andrei Gromyko, to urge him to facilitate a translation of “Hiroshima” into Russian and get it distributed within the Soviet Union. Long After the Bomb, Its Story Finds a New Audience 2020-10-12T04:00:00Z Coming from the then leader of the Soviet Union that was a powerful demonstration of the global reach and integrity of the BBC. BBC vows to protect World Service 2011-06-12T09:18:31Z Ms. Kopatchinskaja was born in what was then the Soviet Union into a musical family: Her parents were both folk musicians with the Moldovan state folk ensemble. ‘Wild Child’ of Violin on a Meteoric Rise 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z These authors never lived in the Soviet Union – or were very young when it collapsed. Russia's cosmonauts of dystopia 2011-04-08T19:00:01Z They were presented to her as a gift on behalf of the Soviet Union in recognition of her husband’s contributions to the program, Sotheby’s said. Soviet-era 'moon rocks' sell for $855,000 at New York auction 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z The Soviet Union was dissolving, and Ms. Sizova was able to move with her son to Washington. Alla Sizova, Star Kirov Ballerina, Dies at 75 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z Stalin was repudiated by the Soviet Union after his death. Russian cinema defies official ban to screen Stalin satire movie 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z There is the African polygamist; the Jewish Zionist and Palestinian hijacker; bribery in India and human trafficking in the former Soviet Union. Art Review: Taryn Simon Exhibition at MoMA 2012-08-16T21:46:38Z Mr. Train founded and ran a leading financial firm devoted to preserving the money of rich families, and he worked to support the mujahedeen in their fight against the Soviet Union in the 1980s. John Train, Paris Review Co-Founder and Cold War Operative, Dies at 94 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z He called the Soviet Union an “evil empire”, which it was. The great storyteller’s story 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z At a victory parade in June 1945 he rode a white stallion through Red Square and was acclaimed as the "saviour" of the Soviet Union. Stalin's General: The Life of Georgy Zhukov by Geoffrey Roberts – review 2013-06-28T16:40:00Z As you watch “My Perestroika,” the similarities are striking between the anti-United States propaganda of the old Soviet Union and America’s use of terms like “evil empire.” | 'My Perestroika': Through the Looking Glass of History 2011-03-22T23:12:14Z The U-2 models are more sophisticated than ones used in 1960, when a spy plane piloted by Gary Powers was shot down over the Soviet Union. 'Catching' a U-2 fresh back from America's air wars 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z Strains of tuberculosis that are resistant to most of the drugs used to treat them are spreading rapidly across the former Soviet Union and pose a serious global threat, warn doctors. Drug-resistant tuberculosis poses global threat, warn doctors 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z There’s a grain shortage in the Soviet Union, and the Russians suspect American sabotage. Review: ‘The Americans’ History Suddenly Feels Less Retro 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z The Kabakovs’ best-known works portray the stifling atmosphere of the Soviet Union and evoke the universal human quest for a better life. Coast of Utopia 2014-05-01T04:00:00Z In those days, I saw myself as one of the good guys, protecting America from “alien” invasions and the potential nuclear obliteration of the country at the hands of godless communists from the Soviet Union. We are the empire: Military interventions, “Star Wars” and how we’re the real aliens 2016-07-17T04:00:00Z Throughout his long career, both in the Soviet Union and the United States, Mr. Melamid, now 69, has perpetrated one long series of subversive stunts. Alexander Melamid Begins Artenol, an Art Magazine 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z After leaving the Soviet Union in the 1970s, the pair used the same approach but with different targets. Alexander Melamid Begins Artenol, an Art Magazine 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z Other items document Reagan's personal diplomacy with Gorbachev and other leaders of the since-disbanded Soviet Union. Archives shows rarely seen Reagan documents in DC 2011-01-05T18:21:08Z Much of his work has focused on themes of his motherland, the Soviet Union, and the homeland, Israel, both of which he describes as shattered utopias. Capturing a 21st-Century War With 19th-Century Technology 2023-07-20T04:00:00Z Gessen, a child of the Soviet Union, offers up a portrait of Vladimir Putin as a man formed by his many years in the K.G.B. 25 Great Books by Refugees in America 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z "Everyone wanted to strangle the Soviet Union - and they want to now," she said. Who won the war? Russians take a different view on D-Day 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z When we think of the Cold War, we think of the constant war-footing in American culture, the stereotypical images of people from the Soviet Union, even of a kind of palette of colors. “All Muslim life in America is seen through the lens of terrorism” 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z Yet Eisenhower avoided war with the Soviet Union and handled the crisis over the Suez Canal, in 1956, “with assurance and wisdom”. Under the surface of Eisenhower’s era 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z China in the 21st century is not the Other in the way that the Soviet Union was, or North Korea is. Is the new Red Dawn a blast from the past? 2012-11-23T20:15:01Z After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought the last Soviet generation was going to be the great hope for democracy. Q&A: Masha Gessen Sees a Bleak Future for Putin's Russia 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z She grew up amid the widespread privation in Georgia that followed the breakup of the Soviet Union: “no electricity, no water, no food, nothing,” she recalled. A Young Singer Takes the Opera World by Storm 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z He knew this from the research he had done on his previous novel, “The Goose Fritz,” which explored military cooperation between the Soviet Union and Germany in the late 1920s and early ’30s. Raised on Le Carré, He Wrote a Thriller Dipped in Poison 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z We like to vilify the Soviet Union, but there were many positive aspects of the system. Emigre to U.S. documents extraordinary Russian lives 2010-06-25T18:23:00Z After the Soviet Union fell apart he went to Moscow, where he published a book about the corruption of the Russian state by big business. How I Taught My Son to Speak Russian 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z Though the ninth is used more famously in Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker, the first film he made outside of the Soviet Union employs it to even more distressing effect. Clip joint: Beethoven's ninth symphony 2012-12-05T16:13:20Z Sting, criticized for performing in 2009 in Uzbekistan which is widely regarded as one of the most repressive countries to emerge from the Soviet Union, described the treatment of the Kazakh workers as "unacceptable." Sting cancels Kazakh concert over oil worker dispute 2011-07-03T19:54:04Z Originally published in 2013, it describes the decline of Soviet culture through hundreds of interviews with Russians who lived through the fall of the Soviet Union. Nobel Winner Svetlana Alexievich Books to Be Published by Random House 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z And that earlier line about Mr. Gvasalia growing up in the Soviet Union? Homer Simpson Was Made for Fashion 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z By the end of the year, the Soviet Union had invaded Afghanistan. The hill of gold 2011-02-19T00:05:32Z Of all the developments there since the fall of the Soviet Union, what do you think was the best opportunity for change that slipped away? ArtsBeat: Masha Gessen Talks About the Reign of Vladimir Putin 2012-03-07T18:52:16Z The idea of an enviable Soviet Union utterly fails to compute. Red star rising 2010-08-06T23:04:00Z It was an expression of the anguish of what was called the “Special Period,” when the dissolution of the Soviet Union devastated the Cuban economy, leading to widespread food shortages. In Cuba, as an uncertain future inches closer, it’s still a step back in time 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z In the mid-1950s, while researching his Harvard doctoral dissertation, “Trends in Labor Productivity in the Soviet Tractor Industry,” he first visited the Soviet Union. Norton Dodge, 84, Economics Professor and Art Collector, Dies 2011-11-12T06:23:51Z “Be who you are and you might rise high in tomorrow’s Soviet Union,” the Putin character is advised. Washington theaters shine a spotlight on Vladimir Putin 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z Ms. Winslet plays Joanna Hoffman, who was born in the Soviet Union to a mother from Armenia and a father from Poland. Oscar’s Heart May Be in Hollywood, but His Accent Is British 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z “Why is it that the Soviet Union is not sending cosmonauts to the moon?” the question ran. Svetlana Boym, 56, Scholar of Myth and Memory, Dies 2015-08-22T04:00:00Z Here was this lone American against this team from the Soviet Union who honed and nurtured their chess players. Child prodigy 2011-07-15T01:11:11Z Solzhenitsyn's masterpiece, The Gulag Archipelago – written in secrecy in the Soviet Union and published in Paris in 1973 – is the definitive account of Stalin's political penal system. Alexander Solzhenitsyn's 'last stories' will appear in English at last 2011-07-23T23:07:17Z He lived through the most terrifying decades of the Soviet Union to become its most celebrated composer. Julian Barnes and the Shostakovich Wars 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z Tour destinations included Japan and the Soviet Union, and there were seasons at the London Palladium. Kenny Ball 2013-03-07T17:31:53Z The underground upstart from Georgia in the former Soviet Union who made his name at Vetements, aggressively thumbing his nose at the establishment and all its pretensions, had suddenly become its prophet. The Year of Balenciaga 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z Even in the Soviet Union in the late 1950s and early ’60s, it seems, hope and excitement pervaded the air, at least for the student class. 2010-01-20T05:20:00Z “Without the funding from the Soviet Union and the United States,” Ms. Griswold writes, of Somalia, “would-be leaders were searching for new claims to power.” Books of The Times: In ?The Tenth Parallel,? by Eliza Griswold, Religions Clash 2010-08-17T23:26:00Z Gessen, a Russian American who now lives in the U.S., is a critic of Putin and keenly tuned to the toxic legacy of the Soviet Union. Best books of 2017: The best nonfiction 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z It is 1992, shortly after the breakup of the Soviet Union, and the newly independent republic of Georgia is embroiled in a war with a Russian proxy army supporting the breakaway province of Abkhazia. A Georgian Competing on Estonia's Behalf 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z The vitriol aimed at Ali, therefore, derived from Americans who considered Islam a destructive alternative to Christianity, and from fears that the Middle East had succumbed to the influence of the Soviet Union. “They’ve got to kill me. They can’t afford to let me live”: Inside the amazing friendship between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z The chief Allied partners were Britain, France and, later, the Soviet Union and the United States. Europe: 100 years of war and transformation He was famous in the Soviet Union and East Germany and all over the Communist world. Tom Hanks: By the Book 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z Indeed, he somewhat underplays the horrific history of the Soviet Union from the late 1920s up to the Nazi-Soviet pact of 1939. A grim half-century 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z My God, the Soviet Union’s end hasn’t received this kind of publicity.” Here's How 5 Legendary Talk Show Hosts Said Goodbye 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z In the next scene a Russian-speaking anchor chronicled Khukhashvili’s early years playing handball in the former Soviet Union. Could this man control college basketball? 2013-03-17T21:00:00Z But Kraus said of Hitler "on the subject of national socialism nothing occurs to me", and the same satirical silence falls over Stalin's Soviet Union. Fractured Times: Culture and Society in the 20th Century by Eric Hobsbawm – review 2013-03-31T08:00:06Z Back in the United States, Nixon, poised to run for the presidency, gained stature as a tough anti-Communist in his set-to with Khrushchev, the leader of the Soviet Union. Jack Masey, Whose Exhibitions Showed American Culture to World, Dies at 91 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z Graham Greene said that in response to the move all novelists, poets, and scientists should refuse to let their works be published in the Soviet Union. Alexander Solzhenitsyn is arrested: From the archive, 13 Feb 1974 2013-02-13T07:00:00Z T he character Ninotchka, for example, was a Soviet Union villain complete with a fake Russian accent. The Story Behind the Wrestling Show That Inspired Netflix’s 'GLOW' 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z Ms. Gorokhova’s older half-sister, Marina, escapes the grind of daily life in the Soviet Union by becoming, to her mother’s dismay, an actress. 2010-01-12T23:49:00Z Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union were pioneers in this sort of campaign against reality, but Lynskey argues persuasively that Orwell knew that they would not lack successors. Review | How the world of ‘1984’ haunts our present 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z In other eras and societies — the Great Depression, the Soviet Union — long lines signify scarcity or oppression. At Comic-Con, Bring Out Your Fantasy and Fuel the Culture 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z After all, the competition between the United States and the Soviet Union, or more broadly between what was then called the Free World and the Communist bloc, had yielded a host of baleful effects. Goodbye, age of great expectations: We know how America got here, but where does it go now? 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z The Soviet Union won the 1972 Olympic match with a last gasp basket after a controversial decision to replay the last three seconds. We are the champions: basketball film wows Russians before election 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z At one time her property here, Topridge, numbered 68 buildings, including a copy of a dacha that she had built for her third husband, a former ambassador to the Soviet Union in the 1930s. Adirondack Retreats When Old Money Was New 2010-08-12T21:11:00Z Rostropovich, a brilliant cellist who took up conducting relatively late in life, led the NSO for 17 seasons, after he was exiled from the Soviet Union due to his support for Alexander Solzhenitsyn. ‘There’s still high culture in America’: Why the National Symphony Orchestra went to Moscow 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z Though he chose not to return, his connections let him continue collecting from afar until the twilight of the Soviet Union. Norton Dodge, 84, Economics Professor and Art Collector, Dies 2011-11-12T06:23:51Z Franco’s troops were backed by Hitler and Mussolini, while the losing Republican forces of the democratic Spanish government were supported by a complex and often feuding coalition that included anarchists, communists and Stalin’s Soviet Union. Review | A child’s murder sets off a sprawling tale of politics, war and family 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z After the fall of the Soviet Union, the number of players adept in this style began to dwindle, as the system’s vestigial influence faded. Cold War Puck: The Beauties of Russian Hockey 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z By then, the Soviet Union was collapsing and Georgia was embroiled in a civil war. And You Thought Your Family Was Modern 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z Within 20 years, the Cold War was over and the Soviet Union had broken up. Cold War historian finishes epic on George Kennan 2012-04-19T17:08:13Z Few American journalists know how life in Vladimir Putin’s Russia embraces the atmosphere of fear, secrecy and corruption that flourished in the Soviet Union. New documentary re-examines fall of USSR 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z The conflict between the U.S. and the Soviet Union didn't end with the Cuban missile crisis in October 1962. Author peels back curtain on Cold War in Caribbean 2011-04-01T18:01:12Z Brodsky, a native of Moscow, began his career in the late 1970s as a “paper architect,” producing fantastical conceptual drawings that starkly contrasted with the standardized public architecture of the Soviet Union. View Alexander Brodsky’s Surreal Architectural Drawings and Models at Berlin’s Tchoban Foundation 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z Its unconvincing love triangle has to compete with a tangle of other lugubrious threads: the nuclear gamesmanship between the United States and Soviet Union; the posturing and pageantry of the international chess scene. Review | ‘Chess’ has the best cast of any musical this season. But the show itself has issues. 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z He also got a drinking horn from the leader of the Soviet Union. They got him what!? A look into the art of presidential gift-giving. 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z About 25 percent of Germany’s land was given to Poland and the Soviet Union. Europe: 100 years of war and transformation Television and entertainment took Russia less seriously when it was the Soviet Union and really was the nation’s most dangerous adversary. On ‘The Americans’ and Other Shows, Russian Spies Invade 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z Rumour spreads that it's all the work of the Soviet Union. Super 8 ? review 2011-08-06T23:05:42Z This tragic, painful, dazzlingly directed drama takes place in the Soviet Union right after the Second World War. Best Movies of 2020 2020-12-03T05:00:00Z The U-2 models are more sophisticated than ones used in 1960, when a spy plane piloted by Gary Powers was shot down over the Soviet Union. 'Catching' a U-2 fresh back from America's air wars 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z She didn’t sing again until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1989. The 52 Places Traveler: Finding the Real Prague 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z His theater became one of the best-known in the Soviet Union and performers included the likes of musician and social commentator Vladimir Vysotsky. Russian theater director Lyubimov dies at 97 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z More ballets followed, and then the ultimate triumph as Ms. Saleh toured the Soviet Union. A Ballerina’s Story, Once Upon a Time in Egypt 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z The west was also extremely grateful to him for giving up his ballistic missiles when the collapse of the Soviet Union left him the master of the world's fourth-largest nuclear arsenal. Astana, Kazakhstan: the space station in the steppes 2010-08-08T00:59:00Z It was proposed that France, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and the US would contribute 0.5% of their military budgets in a “fight for life”. Bacon-cancer link: head of UN agency at heart of furore defends its work 2018-12-25T05:00:00Z Operation Barbarossa, the colossal invasion of the Soviet Union by the Axis powers, in which nearly a million people would die, had launched in June. When It’s Too Late to Stop Fascism, According to Stefan Zweig 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z The church has experienced a revival since the collapse of the officially atheist Soviet Union in 1991. Russian punk rockers in jail for anti-Putin prayer 2012-03-14T12:21:16Z “The Soviet Union had many supporters in countries around the world because people believed in the communist cause,” he said. New documentary re-examines fall of USSR 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z Saturated with the crepuscular wariness heard in most of Mr. Kancheli’s mature music, if fewer of his characteristic sharp dynamic outbursts, “Morning Prayers” attests to religious ache just a year before the Soviet Union ended. Music Review: Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra at Carnegie Hall 2013-05-09T21:19:17Z She added that, in both the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, Ukraine and other nations were deprived of their identity. Defying Russian Missiles and Soviet Censors, Ukrainian Art Goes on Show 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z Too much was riding, psychologically and financially, on the economic policies, military posture and cultural orientation that had outmatched the Soviet Union. How Victory in the Cold War Led to Tragedy in the Years After 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z None of the latter take place in the Soviet Union. A Debut Novel Reimagines the C.I.A.’s Efforts to Promote ‘Doctor Zhivago’ 2019-09-02T04:00:00Z Indeed, when Reagan comes back to work, he writes a personal letter to Soviet Union chief Leonid Brezhnev, opening doors to talks. TV presidents can do anything, except declare themselves as good Republicans 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z A wall label dryly notes, “The Left’s policies shifted with those of the Soviet Union.” Review: ‘Folk City’ at the Museum of the City of New York 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z Strauss argued that individuals turn to esoteric messaging when they fear persecution; for example, it was particularly popular among dissidents in the Soviet Union. How Gaylor Swift conspiracists think like QAnoners 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z Yugoslavia was the most liberal of Socialist republics, and an easier place to be an independent artist or architect than the Soviet Union, Romania, Albania or even East Germany. When Yugoslavia’s Bright Future Was Fashioned in Concrete 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z It is interesting that Arkady doesn’t inform Nina that failure to get this information will result in her being sent back to the Soviet Union and tried for treason, but that he does tell Oleg. ArtsBeat: ‘The Americans’ Recap: Invisible vs. Invincible 2014-05-08T14:43:04Z Marat Novikov, the owner, left his hometown, Minsk, the Belarusian capital, for Brooklyn three decades ago, when the Soviet Union was verging on collapse. Top 10 Cheap Eats of 2018: A World of New York Stories 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z During the Manichaean rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union, India’s commitment to state-led industrialization and a foreign policy of nonalignment was suspect in American eyes. India and the United States: Two Countries That Can’t Live With Each Other or Without Each Other 2022-07-11T04:00:00Z The situation also galvanized a rare coalition of forces more accustomed to conflict with one another — big oil and environmental activists, the U.S. and Soviet Union — to work together to save the whales. 'Big Miracle': Breathing life into tale of three trapped whales 2012-02-02T21:07:06Z And someone said we should take our American program to the Soviet Union. An American Leads the Odesa Philharmonic to Berlin 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z Baker discusses her visit to the Soviet Union in the early nineteen-thirties—which she undertook with mitigated enthusiasm and a clear recognition of the chill of purges and the weight of dogma. The Real “Knick” 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z In his book “The Last Days of Stalin,” Joshua Rubenstein captures the dictator’s power over the Soviet Union in a quote: “Stalin was inside everyone, like the hammer alongside the sickle in every mind.” Review: The Slapstick Horror of ‘The Death of Stalin’ 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z "The Tibetan issue is very complicated," said Tibet’s spiritual leader, appearing on a panel with former Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev and other Nobel Peace laureates. Nobel laureates appeal to world's youth 2012-04-25T21:30:00Z This is not dissimilar to the way the Soviet Union ended, and the feeling in Moscow these days is reminiscent of that time. ArtsBeat: Masha Gessen Talks About the Reign of Vladimir Putin 2012-03-07T18:52:16Z At the time, the United States was in a geopolitical contest with the Soviet Union, but it was fighting a contest of ideas, too. Perspective | At 50, Kennedy Center can no longer be a cultural island 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z By then, Prokofiev, who had left his homeland after the Russian Revolution, had returned and settled in the Soviet Union. Review: The Time for Prokofiev’s ‘War and Peace’ Is Now 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z The Soviet Union raided Germany and other enemy territory for art troves in the dying days of World War II - and thus indirectly looted tremendous amounts of art confiscated by the Nazis from the Jews. Eastern Europe under spotlight on art restitution 2010-08-02T16:45:00Z While Orwell was a man of the left, the novel was seized on as a useful cultural weapon against the Soviet Union. The Children of ‘1984’: Dystopia Down the Decades 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z Gabriel was seen early on offering Elizabeth homemade pierogies, like the ones his mother used to make in the Soviet Union “when we had eggs.” ‘The Americans’ Season 4, Episode 11: A Shock Ending 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z In Clancy’s books, the U.S. always beats the Soviet Union, so who got that prediction right? The Russian Tom Clancy Is on the Front Lines for Real 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z Macmillan was PM; the cold war with the Soviet Union as dark and bleak as ever. A Delicate Truth by John le Carré – review 2013-04-20T14:00:02Z As Freeman shows, what started inauspiciously became an engine for material abundance and, in the cases of the United States and the Soviet Union, a source of national pride. In ‘Behemoth,’ Manufacturing Still Looms Large 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z Engaging documentary from Chicago native Polsky captures the appeal, and the training methods, of the Soviet Union's hockey team at the height of the Cold War. 10 films to see at the Chicago International Film Festival 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z This beloved Italian drama series, which translates to “The Octopus,” ran from 1984 to 2001 and found popularity in the Soviet Union. What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘Sorry for Your Loss’ and ‘The Hunt for the Trump Tapes’ 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z However, the Soviet Union refused to let him travel. The Solar System Winked 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z This made him an early and staunch critic of the Soviet Union. This Week in Fiction: Isaac Bashevis Singer 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z There was also the fact that travelling through the Soviet Union, especially off the beaten track, was not exactly encouraged, so many fascinating buildings remained almost unknown outside their homelands. Swansongs of a superpower: Russia's secret architecture 2011-02-07T21:31:01Z Her closest moments with her husband came during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, when the United States and the Soviet Union seemed on the verge of nuclear war. New book shows another side to Jackie Kennedy 2011-09-12T03:51:08Z However, perhaps the song repertoire is even more potent, her mastery of it coming about because most of her recitals were given outside the Soviet Union. Galina Vishnevskaya obituary 2012-12-11T18:32:40Z Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa has made a slow but compelling parable about the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union and the partisans hiding out in the forest, preparing to hit back. The best films for spring 2013 2013-04-01T05:59:03Z These were probably the first artworks in the Soviet Union to use found imagery to capture the Soviet zeitgeist and tweak the regime. The Life’s Work of Photography’s Great Trickster, and Ukraine’s Greatest Artist 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z After the fall of the Soviet Union, he led the Mejlis and was elected to the Ukrainian parliament five times. Russia Declares War on Eurovision 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z “You’d have to put it, as they did in the Soviet Union, not in the city center, but somewhere outside,” she said. The Statues Were Toppled. What Happens to Them Now? 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z In 1955 it was first staged in Venice, in Italian; Russian audiences were introduced to it only in the 1990s, amid the disintegration of the Soviet Union. Review: ‘The Fiery Angel,’ Devilishly Tough Prokofiev 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z For a novelist fascinated by the slipperiness of truth, what richer ground than the Soviet Union under Stalin, where a memory might save your life, or cost another his? Music and memory 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z The last one was Mikhail Baryshnikov, who electrified the public imagination by defecting from the Soviet Union in 1974 and landing in New York. Can Misty Copeland be both a celebrity AND a great artist? 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z The same pathology afflicted large numbers of Soviet Jews, who, to the dismay of their Western sponsors, nourished a deep desire to flee not only the Soviet Union but their identity as Jews. ‘A Backpack, a Bear and Eight Crates of Vodka,’ a Memoir 2014-11-23T05:00:00Z Next came India, which Walton labels "a story of gross mismanagement" so inept that even MI5's misplaced obsession with Jawaharlal Nehru's supposedly communist affiliations "failed to prevent India from gravitating towards the Soviet Union". Empire of Secrets by Calder Walton – review 2013-01-31T11:00:01Z She helped draft the Constitution of Moldova after it declared independence from the Soviet Union in 1991 and, in the mid-1990s, served in a devastated Sarajevo at the end of the Bosnian war. Elizabeth Brown Pryor, Biographer of Clara Barton and Robert E. Lee, Dies at 64 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z Yet Stalin is remembered as the man who modernised the Soviet Union and defeated the German attempt to conquer it, if not quite arm-in-arm with Britain and the US, then at least in expedient collaboration. Carry on up the Kremlin: how The Death of Stalin plays Russian roulette with the truth 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z President Kennedy understood the crucial role of a vigorous free press in a democracy and liked to point out the absence of journalistic freedom in the Soviet Union. Masters of their medium: JFK on TV, Trump on Twitter 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z “He underwrote the salaries of emissaries — meaning Lubavitch rabbis — who established themselves in communities around the world,” Ms. Eisner said, “particularly the work they did in the former Soviet Union.” Sami Rohr, Jewish Philanthropist Remembered by a Writing Prize, Dies at 86 2012-08-11T00:33:06Z When readers ask me what Washington lacks, my wish list often includes the cuisine of Georgia, as in the bread basket of the former Soviet Union. Perspective | Is this the answer to making restaurant seating more comfortable? 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z In his 1993 volume, “Black Hundred,” issued as the rest of the world was still basking in the fall of the Soviet Union and foreseeing a new democratic Russia, he warned of the opposite. Review: Walter Laqueur’s ‘Putinism’ Dissects a Canny Russian Leader 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z But as Bush assumed office, the Soviet Union was imploding. 'Destiny and Power' sheds light on George H.W. Bush and the country we've become 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z Many separatists harbor an inchoate nostalgia for both the Soviet Union and the tsarist empire, and the distinction between Russian imperialists and local anarchists is vague at best. The Bard of Eastern Ukraine, Where Things Are Falling Apart 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z She was in the Soviet Union, and then she was killed by the Nazis. My mentally ill sister 2012-06-02T00:00:00Z Owens says he can't let the truth about the torn portal get out, or it end up in the wrong hands, namely Soviet Union enemies. Our Biggest Questions After the 'Stranger Things' Season 2 Finale 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z He was dealing with the issue in Gessen’s subtitle: What kind of regime was the Soviet Union, and what was emerging in its wake? In Masha Gessen’s ‘The Future Is History,’ Homo Sovieticus Rises 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z This at a time when, as one voice says, "We are engaged in a war with the Soviet Union. This war does not for the moment involve men at arms. It involves information." 'Bridge of Spies' trailer: Spielberg, Hanks tackle Cold War intrigue 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z So the library is now an unlibrary, in the way that people became unpersons in the darkest days of the Soviet Union. Kensal Rise library stripped in night of books and Twain plaque 2012-05-29T18:51:27Z The rift between the Soviet Union and China may have been, as Kissinger has said, inevitable. How Do You Explain Henry Kissinger? 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z He went to the former Soviet Union to make his fortune and then bought a newly privatized bank back in Iceland. Reykjavik Film Festival: Economies Crash, Volcanoes Burn 2011-09-30T23:13:09Z In the last days of the Soviet Union, rock bands that had been banned just years before found a huge audience among those fighting the Communist system. Russia's unlikely protest song rocks rally 2012-02-05T13:38:07Z But this apocalyptic fiction almost became fact in 1983, averted only by the doubts of a single Soviet Union officer. Review: ‘The Man Who Saved the World’ Recounts a Cold War Near Miss 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z Dworkin begged to play an instrument, though, so at 7 she entered the Soviet Union’s tightly organized music education program, and chose the violin. They Were Ahead of the Curve on Diversity in Classical Music 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z On Aug. 20, 1968, Warsaw Pact troops led by the Soviet Union invaded Czechoslovakia, putting a violent end to the reformist socialist experiment known as the Prague Spring. ‘Burning Bush,’ an Agnieszka Holland Film on Communism 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z As Khrushchev promised "to dismantle the arms, to crate and return them to the Soviet Union", the freighters carrying the missiles turned back mid-ocean. October 1962: the month that modern culture was born 2012-09-29T22:12:23Z Which didn't happen so thoroughly that the way the Soviet Union seemed to be between 1957 and 1964 or thereabouts has been more or less displaced from our collective memory. Red star rising 2010-08-06T23:04:00Z Eisenhower's message of peace to the world transmitted from space was touted as a victory in the space race after the Soviet Union launched a satellite the year before. Simon & Garfunkel song among those to be preserved 2013-03-21T09:52:07Z In 1957, in the depths of the Cold War, she became the first ballerina from the Western Hemisphere to appear as a guest artist in the Soviet Union. Alicia Alonso, Star of Cuba’s National Ballet, Dies at 98 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z Her mother, like thousands of other ethnic Germans between the ages of 17 and 45, was deported to a forced-labour camp in the Soviet Union after the war. The Hunger Angel by Herta Müller – review 2012-11-21T08:00:07Z The Soviet Union alone counted 20 million dead, a third of them civilians. Europe: 100 years of war and transformation I mean the idea that, with the collapse of the Soviet Union, Western-style liberal democracy was going to triumph everywhere and ideology would give way to technocratic solutions to all our problems and so on. Ben Lerner on Adolescence and His Forthcoming Novel 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z Quite lauded at its time, this gem from the Soviet Union is a bit overshadowed these days by the steamier 1957 home front film The Cranes Are Flying. The 10 greatest second world war films you haven't seen 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z A smart, balanced analysis of the internal developments that have shaped Russia’s course since the break-up of the Soviet Union. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z It dates from Nov. 20, 1988 and the front page details a visit by Mikhail Gorbachev to India - a memento of the final years of communism under the last leader of the Soviet Union. Abandoned Budapest hospital offers glimpse into Soviet past 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z According to the outlet, the letters were from pen pals or relatives who had moved out of Lithuania, which was part of the Soviet Union at the time. Lithuanian lost letters from 1960s, 70s delivered decades later 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z The Soviet Union, with nannying guides, controlled and protected its tourists; the new Russia torments visitors with every scam available to rampant capitalism. Why We Travel 2011-04-01T19:10:47Z Ms. Hessman’s timing may be fortunate, given how the uprisings in the Middle East seem to echo those that brought down Communism in the Soviet Union and its satellites. In Post-Soviet World: Ordinary 2011-03-21T16:59:00Z The 1960s and 1970s saw substantial Jewish emigration from the Soviet Union to the United States and to Israel. The Jews Who Dreamed of Utopia 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z The main problem is that travel was even harder this past year than it was between the United States and the Soviet Union in the 1970s. Dark. Messy. Assaultive. Inscrutable. Even From Your Couch. 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z Written by contemporary writers from Lviv, the true stories were inspired by the mass exodus from Ukraine in the 1990s after the fall of the Soviet Union. Ukrainian Children Bring a Play From a Bomb Shelter to Brooklyn 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z For the founders of the Soviet Union, science was always a pillar of the state. Paperback Row 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z We saw her for only a moment, but she didn’t look defeated by her exile to the Soviet Union. ‘The Americans’ Season 5, Episode 3 Recap: More Than This 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z Mr. Reznik, 41, was born in the Soviet Union, where he served in the military. 2010-02-06T09:40:00Z Her speech to her parents about how they could essentially control everything but her mind had some thematic parallels to Vaklonov’s imprisonment in the Soviet Union. ArtsBeat: ‘The Americans’ Recap: Invisible vs. Invincible 2014-05-08T14:43:04Z No one came to Ukraine’s rescue, despite the attempts of those, like Jones, who tried to expose the facts about the Soviet Union. ‘Mr. Jones’ Review: Bearing Witness to Stalin’s Evil 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z In both series you play a Western soldier confronting a menace originating from the former Soviet Union. 'Battlefield: Bad Company 2': Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Shifts Momentum in This War 2010-04-07T21:46:00Z In the early 1980s, Zubair and Shamim Popal and their children were among millions of Afghans to flee the country as war with the Soviet Union continued to punish the population. Lapis review: A fragrant taste of Afghanistan in Adams Morgan 2016-02-10T05:00:00Z Our grandmother hated the Soviet Union, and she was delighted when the Soviet Union collapsed. Masha and Keith Gessen on Writing About Russia 2019-03-17T04:00:00Z The Soviet Union was determined not to let the world know that the core of the reactor in Pripyat, northern Ukraine, had exploded. Jared Harris: My wife can't believe how I keep getting bumped off! 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z Kremlinologists used to scrutinize every prosaic photo or public statement from the upper echelons of the Soviet Union for clues to which official was in or out, who was ascending to power or gulag-bound. ‘The Death of Stalin’ Review: Laughing in the Graveyard of History 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z His parents were Jewish immigrants from the Soviet Union in an area that is now part of Ukraine. Actor Leonard Nimoy Passes Away At Age 83 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z Following an unsuccessful bid to emigrate to the Soviet Union, in 1926, Tsiang fled to the United States and enrolled at Stanford University. The Remarkable Forgotten Life of H. T. Tsiang 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z "It still was the Soviet Union before and still lots of political pressure and communism was around. It was very corrupt. I didn’t like that." Ukrainian American recalls son's 'scary' phone call during Russia invasion: 'Mom, they started bombing' 2022-03-05T05:00:00Z His father, Gia Areshidze, a political commentator still living in Georgia, foresaw the collapse of the Soviet Union and became determined to send his son to the United States. And You Thought Your Family Was Modern 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z In the Soviet Union, the KGB was clearly subordinated to the Communist party. The New Nobility: The Restoration of Russia's Security State and the Enduring Legacy of?the KGB by Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan 2010-09-24T23:06:00Z Since 1994 Mr. Lukashenko has run this former republic of the Soviet Union, leading what former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice once called “the last true remaining dictatorship in the heart of Europe.” Theater Group in Belarus Is Forced Underground 2010-12-22T04:00:02Z He later performed with Goodman, the clarinetist and big-band leader known as the King of Swing, on his tour of the Soviet Union in 1962. Phil Woods, celebrated alto saxophonist in jazz, dies at 83 2015-09-30T04:00:00Z And many of his negotiations, particularly with the Soviet Union and the Middle East states, proved unsustainable after his departure. Learning From Henry Kissinger 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z The story is an allegory of the so-called special period in Cuba during the 1990s, a time of widespread poverty created by the fall of the Soviet Union. Sci-Fi Writers Find Warmer Climate Amid Cuban Thaw 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z Mr. Gan, who lives in Canada but is originally from Russia, has studied alternative communities that have sprung up since the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The Hot Docs Festival Shows Documentaries Shot in Ukraine 2014-04-18T18:37:42Z The British actor stars as a Russian agent on the trail of serial killer murdering small boys during the end of the Stalin era of the Soviet Union in Child 44. Tom Hardy Used ‘Sesame Street’ To Prepare for ‘Child 44’ 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z In the Soviet Union they were calling it 'self-criticism'. Los Angeles museum commissions mural ? then obliterates it 2010-12-19T20:00:02Z Järvi, who was born in 1962 in Tallinn, Estonia, then part of the Soviet Union, had a difficult decision to make. A Conductor on Why He Stayed in Russia After the Invasion Began 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z Season 6 jumps ahead to 1987, two years before the fall of the Berlin Wall and four before the end of the Soviet Union. The Forecast: ‘The Americans’ Ends, J.K. Simmons Multiplies 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z While the Soviet Union was instrumental in spreading classical music to other Communist Asian nations — like China and North Korea — it was obliged to start from square one in Mongolia. Music and Dance: A Bastion of Classical Repertory on the Asian Steppe 2011-06-07T11:30:06Z Gabrielle Cornish is assistant professor of musicology at the University of Miami’s Frost School of Music, where she researches experimental music in the Soviet Union after Stalin. When Ukrainian Music Wasn’t Under Threat, It Thrived 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z It’s notionally a day in the life of a city in the Soviet Union and so it has, on a purely sociological/historical level, great value. 50 documentaries you need to see 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z “When I was growing up, it wasn’t a cool thing to tell your friends that your parents were from the Soviet Union,” he said. ‘Red Army’ Charts Rise and Fall of a Soviet Hockey Team 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z “There’s a very strong focus again and again on former Communists and on the actions of the former Soviet Union, which were obviously absolutely horrific,” Mr. Bell said. Timothy Snyder’s ‘Black Earth’ Puts Holocaust, and Himself, in Spotlight 2015-09-07T04:00:00Z In 1994, three years after the fall of the Soviet Union, Ukraine was an unmitigated economic disaster. T Magazine: Lady Miss Kiev 2011-11-18T18:03:26Z Perhaps part of the reason punk has begun to lash out so effectively in the former Soviet Union is the nature of the extreme oppression in Russian society. Protest music?s odd conservative turn 2012-05-21T15:38:00Z When he was born it was all one country, the Soviet Union, but now the current leaders of his motherland, Russia, is attacking the land of his grandparents. Capturing a 21st-Century War With 19th-Century Technology 2023-07-20T04:00:00Z He said no officials congratulated him on the Golden Globe award for Best Foreign Language Film, the first such award for Russia after the 1969 triumph of "War and Peace" produced in the Soviet Union. Oscar-nominated 'Leviathan' ruffles feathers in Russia 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z “The Great Terror: A Reassessment” included new information made available after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Robert Conquest, Historian Who Documented Soviet Horrors, Dies at 98 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z Revisit another one of his acclaimed roles from 37 years ago, in which he plays an Israeli intelligence agent working to smuggle Jews out of the Soviet Union. What’s on TV Thursday: ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars’ and ‘The Good Place’ 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z As a 6-year-old Jewish only child, Boot immigrated with his mother and grandmother to the United States from the Soviet Union in 1976. Did Max Boot Turn His Back on the Republican Party, or Did the Party Turn Its Back on Him? 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z During the proxy wars fought by African and Asian states backed by the Soviet Union, China and the USA, aid agencies found it very difficult to gain access to war zones. Worst aid 2010-04-24T23:06:00Z After the worst nuclear disaster in history, the Soviet Union evacuated the towns near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, including the Ukrainian city of Pryp’yat. The 9 Most Spectacular Lost Cities in the World 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z The story spans 60 years until 1992, when Estonia regained its independence after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Sofi Oksanen bats for the Baltics at Frankfurt book fair 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z Little did he know that the Soviet Union wouldn't exist in 2010, with global tensions focused elsewhere than the Central American conflict portrayed on screen. '2010' the movie vs. 2010 the year 2010-12-20T16:40:00Z The retreat to Guyana, the drugs, the sex, the failed defection attempt to the Soviet Union, the assassination of U.S. How Cults Corrected America 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z “The Letters” is a drama of thought control in Stalin’s Soviet Union, and it’s a good one — a slick 75 minutes with a Hitchcock-like grip. Redacting history in ‘The Letters’ 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z No more than one in 20 Jews who died in the Holocaust knew the languages that Fritzsche does; and very few of the millions of victims in the Soviet Union left an intelligible trail. A New Look at Civilian Life in Europe Under Hitler 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z Mikhail Khodorkovsky was one of the original Russian oligarchs, a handful of politically connected billionaires who made their fortunes taking advantage of the collapse of the former Soviet Union. Khodorkovsky film vanishes again as director says: 'It's like a bad thriller' 2011-02-07T20:46:47Z Like Mr. Melamid, he is an émigré from the former Soviet Union with a lofty sense of the magazine’s subversive mission. Alexander Melamid Begins Artenol, an Art Magazine 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z And all the work, including pieces from Western Europe, is a response either to the stresses of living under Soviet-style socialism or to the stresses of living without it after the Soviet Union dissolved. Art Review: When Repression Was a Muse 2011-07-21T22:30:28Z The book, which has been reissued frequently — with Dr. Sider updating it to account for AIDS, the fall of the Soviet Union and other world developments — has sold hundreds of thousands of copies. Ronald J. Sider, Who Urged Evangelicals to Social Action, Dies at 82 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z Made in 1961, it followed the adventures of a Stone Age man who visits the Soviet Union and comments, a little too acerbically, on the manners and customs he observes. Eldar Ryazanov, Russian Film Director Known for His Satire, Dies at 88 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z The Germans who invaded the Soviet Union in 1941 are represented in Shostakovich’s “Leningrad” Symphony by an unexpectedly bright tune that hardens into a bitter march. An Argument for Hearing a Work With a Nazi Reference 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z He eventually led a department of the theater union of the Soviet Union, where he was in charge of its dance and theater tours. Meet the Impresario Who Makes Dance Happen 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z But if the horrible society of the Soviet Union left any legacy worth considering, if a pearl were ever secreted by the Soviet Union's very diseased oyster, this is it. Red star rising 2010-08-06T23:04:00Z A selection of Chekhov’s stories in a hardback printed in the former Soviet Union. Pankaj Mishra Says Faulkner’s Work Is ‘Atrociously Written,’ and Great 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z Set during the Prague Spring of 1968, it’s about a successful surgeon who quits to become a window washer after refusing to pledge allegiance to the Soviet Union. In Milan Kundera’s Work, the Erotic Meets the Subversive 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z He added that although it happened 25 years ago, the Chernobyl disaster was still part of the psyche of people living in the former Soviet Union. Film takes unusual view of Chernobyl disaster 2011-02-14T14:03:33Z He also made headlines over the years as a political activist and critic of the Soviet Union. A Business Trip Yields the Investment of a Lifetime 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z “I was not married to the country — Russia or the Soviet Union,” Gorbachev, who is now 90 and still lives in Moscow, wrote in his memoirs. Human Most of All: In Moscow, a Theater Stages ‘Gorbachev’ 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z His arrival in the United States made headlines in this country and got him blackballed in the Soviet Union. Oleg Vidov, popular Soviet actor who defected during Cold War, dies at 73 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z In the Soviet Union, conceptualism became a route for artistic expression and survival. Special Report: Contemporary Art: A Russian Guru at Work in Venice 2011-06-13T12:00:06Z If China succeeded in becoming a superpower, it would resemble the former Soviet Union, securing its rule using suspicion and fear. US embassy cables: Dalai Lama says prioritise climate change over politics in Tibet 2010-12-16T21:30:22Z The man introduced himself as a refugee who left the former Soviet Union more than 20 years ago. The National Portrait Gallery unveiled a ‘witty’ picture of Donald Trump 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z The Cold War menace of the Soviet Union was a recurring feature in American comic books from the end of World War II to the fall of the Berlin Wall. DC Comics superhero: “All Star Batman” author Scott Snyder on politics, diversity and comics in the Trump era 2017-05-13T04:00:00Z It won the Academy Award for best foreign film, but Bondarchuk’s envious peers in the Soviet Union spurned him and, in turn, his magnum opus. A Peerless ‘War and Peace’ Film Is Restored to Its Former Glory 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z In the decades after the fall of the Soviet Union, dozens of Ukrainian pop stars performed and appeared on television in Russia. A Pop Star Tried to Reconcile Russia and Ukraine. War Ruined That. 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z Shostakovich’s quartets form a sort of diary of the composer’s life, as the Soviet Union survived Stalinist repression, German invasion, Khrushchev’s thaw and Brezhnev’s stagnation. Carducci Quartet takes on Shostakovich’s quartets at the Phillips 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z Four of them are young people, born while the Soviet Union still existed but whose life experiences were shaped almost entirely under Putin’s presidency. In Masha Gessen’s ‘The Future Is History,’ Homo Sovieticus Rises 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z In 1987, he invited Mikhail Gorbachev to dine, a potent symbol of respect for the leader of the Soviet Union and his liberal policies. What’s a state dinner, again? Macron is back for the first one post-covid. 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z Censorship is always a bad idea – it smacks of the Soviet Union. Politics is a “blood sport”: Roger Stone on his CNN ban, the “real” Donald Trump and the billionaire’s scheme to lure delegates 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z Stalin led the Soviet Union from the 1920s to his death in 1953. Tank battles and Stalin selfies at Belarussian war museum 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z “The new generation, born after the fall of the Soviet Union, is playing a big role in the new democracy,” Ms. Ashakharoyan said. My Armenia 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z The Latvian-born dancer who electrified ballet in the Soviet Union before defecting to dance with major ballet companies worldwide is now artistic director of the Baryshnikov Arts Center in New York. Baryshnikov shows his dance photography in Miami 2012-02-23T17:42:09Z The fragments were brought to Earth not by American Apollo astronauts, who were the first people to land there, but by a spindly unmanned craft launched by the Soviet Union. Your Chance to Own a Piece of the Moon 2018-11-25T05:00:00Z After moving to an apartment in Moscow, Mr. Navrozov and his family left the Soviet Union in 1972 with help from the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society and the American real estate developer Daniel Rose. Lev Navrozov, Literary Translator and Soviet Dissident, Dies at 88 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z He also managed to keep the country at a safe distance from the Soviet Union, breaking away from Stalin and his absolutist control in 1948. My Mother and the Failed Experiment of Yugoslavia 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z Though Ukraine gained independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, the practice continues. TV review: Ukraine's Forgotten Children 2012-06-18T21:30:01Z At 14, Olena began working at the nearby kolkhoz, a Soviet collective farm, raising beets and tobacco, a job that spanned more than 40 years — until the fall of the Soviet Union. On Christmas Eve in Ukraine, the Church Is Chilly (or Is It?) 2017-12-23T05:00:00Z That's the economic history of the Soviet Union in a nutshell: ascent, followed by pratfall. Red star rising 2010-08-06T23:04:00Z Peterson, the activist who has lost multiple relatives, had an epiphany when she visited bereaved families in Kazakhstan, where the Soviet Union did its own testing. Hollywood and the downwinders still grapple with nuclear fallout 2015-06-06T04:00:00Z She settles into suburban New Jersey life only to see the Soviet Union collapse and her friends and family members turn up in America — and in her mother’s case, at her doorstep. Review: “Russian Tattoo,” by Elena Gorokhova 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z Eventually Golyak befriended a small group of other immigrants from the former Soviet Union, who asked him to help them work on scenes, guide them through what worked or not. Chekhov Two Ways, With a Robot and Baryshnikov Along for the Ride 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z Mr. Carrère found a copy in the Paris home of his mother, Hélène Carrère d’Encausse, an esteemed historian of Russia whose 1978 book, “The Decline of Empire,” predicted the end of the Soviet Union. Emmanuel Carrère’s New Book Profiles Edward Limonov 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z The move underscored tensions over Nagorno-Karabakh, a mainly Armenian-populated enclave inside Azerbaijan which Armenian forces seized control of after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Azeri rights row drowns out Eurovision Song Contest 2012-05-24T13:09:57Z This mini-survey explores some of the less confrontational but equally challenging work Mr. Mikhailov made before the collapse of the Soviet Union. Museum and Gallery Listings for Feb. 7-13 2014-02-07T00:06:38Z “Yakobson: I want the entire Soviet Union to be exposed to my art.” ‘Like a Bomb Going Off,’ by Janice Ross 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z The word “laughter” in the subtitle refers to Mr. Amis’s morally perplexed realization that, while Hitler and the Holocaust are off limits, many consider it appropriate to joke about Stalin and the Soviet Union. Martin Amis, Acclaimed Author of Bleakly Comic Novels, Dies at 73 2023-05-20T04:00:00Z Mikhail Gorbachev, the last president of the Soviet Union, joined the chorus of protest in a scathing speech attacking President Vladimir Putin’s authoritarian rule. Top 5 investigative videos of the week: Moon property for sale 2013-04-06T18:00:00Z The institute’s financing plummeted after the Soviet Union collapsed, and it now relies on foreign sources to produce a handful of features each year. Digital Technology Is Making Its Mark in Cuba 2013-01-05T00:24:27Z “I knew about Viktor. He is also famous in Korea,” Yoo told the news conference, saying it was scary to play a character familiar to millions of people in the former Soviet Union. Empty chair at Cannes for detained Russian rock biopic director 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z Several of them became leading figures of Moscow Conceptualism, the most important art movement of the later years of the Soviet Union. The Jews Who Dreamed of Utopia 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z His amused but worried father warns that the Soviet Union is a place where “sneezing too loud can get you arrested.” Movie Review: Russian Musical ?Hipsters? From Valery Todorovsky 2012-02-23T23:58:22Z The Prague Spring was an unsuccessful revolution of a different kind, ended by the military intervention of the Soviet Union in August. Review: ‘In the Intense Now’ Revisits the Drama of 1968 in France and Beyond 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z Opera in the Soviet Union was generally performed in Russian, so in those days a leading Aida could not easily transfer her success to a Western opera house without relearning the part. Olympics Spotlight for Russia’s Musical Profile 2014-02-05T22:54:52Z The bill would require the détente-minded, Kissinger-influenced Administrations of Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford to condition improved trade relations on the Soviet Union granting its citizens the right to emigrate. The Plight of the Political Convert 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z America’s old paranoia about nuclear war with the Soviet Union anticipated our unending War on Terror, an existential threat sufficient to justify any abuse of civil rights, any level of surveillance, any mechanism of exclusion. Review | Joyce Carol Oates has seen hell, and it’s 1950s Wisconsin 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z He established himself as a reformer in the 1980s, enough for Gorbachev to ask him, unsuccessfully, to be prime minister of the Soviet Union. Astana, Kazakhstan: the space station in the steppes 2010-08-08T00:59:00Z Four presentations are rooted in “field research” from the archives, like one tracing how Arab and African filmmakers were influenced by studying in the Soviet Union. Russia’s Expanded Garage Musem Aims to Be a Global Art Player 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z I graduated from dance school when the Soviet Union collapsed, and Leonid is from an earlier generation, but we share the same DNA. Alexei Ratmansky’s Elective Affinity, Musically Speaking 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z A couple of weeks ago, for Episode 2, we explored the question of whether Nina would ultimately side with Stan or the Soviet Union. ArtsBeat: ‘The Americans’ Recap: The Country They Love and Hate 2014-03-20T19:30:37Z There’s also an installation of East German and Soviet Union spy equipment. The Cold War as a museum: At the Wende, one man's 100,000-piece collection finds a new home 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z He emigrated to Canada after the Soviet Union invaded Hungary in November 1956 to suppress a popular revolt. George Jonas, Whose Book Was the Basis of the Film ‘Munich,’ Dies at 80 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z He was Ambassador to the Soviet Union, Secretary of Commerce, Governor of New York, and he ran for President as a Democrat in 1952 and 1956 but lost the nomination both times to Adlai Stevenson. “Metropolitan” and the Enduring Plight of the U.H.B. 2015-08-11T04:00:00Z There was no real cognitive dissonance existing in the minds of most people in the Soviet Union of the nineteen-seventies and eighties. Life Under Alternative Facts 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z It says that a weak United States fights with the mighty and powerful Soviet Union that controls nearly all the world on the globe. The Russian Tom Clancy Is on the Front Lines for Real 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z In fact, it was this book, more than any other, that captured my imagination and propelled me toward the study of Russia and the Soviet Union. Condoleezza Rice on the 10 Days Still Shaking the World 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z Because the piece is critical of the Soviet Union, and because his parents were still alive and living in Czechoslovakia, he thought it best to use a pseudonym—“K. Siva.” The Jewish Trumpeter Who Entertained Nazis to Survive the Holocaust 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z While the Americans were engrossed in overseeing the collapse of the Soviet Union, Thatcher, via her envoy, relentlessly bombarded first President P.W. Much to be thankful for 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z She was just 11 when she arrived in the United States with her mother and two tiny suitcases, a refugee from the Soviet Union. A Hoarder’s Tale of Redemption 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z The song was a popular tune among high society, but it was discouraged when the Soviet Union took over Ukraine in 1920 following the Russian Empire’s fall. Ukrainian national anthem unites the world amid Russia-Ukraine war 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z But Stalin is still revered by a small group of mainly elderly supporters who stress his role in the industrialization of the Soviet Union and in defeating Nazi Germany in World War Two. In Stalin's native Georgia, Soviet dictator still revered by some 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z A Moscow correspondent who lived in the former Soviet Union, he was so successful in investigating Russian corruption that Moscow expelled him from the country. New documentary re-examines fall of USSR 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z The franchise was sold in 1982 to Mike Ilitch, the founder of the Little Caesars pizza chain, and the team’s management moved forward with a risky plan: To recruit star athletes from the Soviet Union. ‘The Russian Five’ Review: Out of the Iron Curtain, Onto the Ice 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z The Nazis forced the Bauhaus out of Dessau in 1932, and in the same year the Soviet Union dissolved independent artists’ unions and promulgated the single style of socialist realism. Picasso in 1932: Ingenious, Exhausting, Relentless 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z Whatever the facts, Mr. Gracia’s messily structured film works best as a document of fear in today’s Ukraine and as a kind of ghost story about the Soviet Union. Review: ‘The Russian Woodpecker’ Offers Another View of Chernobyl Disaster 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z They fled into neighboring Lithuania and lived there until invasion by the Soviet Union posed new dangers. Man saved from Nazis by 'Japan's Schindler' returns on journey of homage 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z We'll leave for another time the question of how much the Hollywood mythos contributed to the world's choice of America over the Soviet Union as a model to emulate and envy. Paul Review: E.T. With a Potty Mouth 2011-03-17T16:05:00Z Over coffee, then whisky, and many cigarettes, in slightly broken English, he talks at length about science, art, acting, politics, and the Soviet Union. Inside Dau, the 'Stalinist Truman Show': 'I had absolute freedom – until the KGB grabbed me' 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z American Genius New episodes recall the space race between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, and the rivalry between firearms manufacturers Samuel Colt and Daniel Wesson. Monday's TV highlights: 'The Making of the Mob: New York' and more 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z In the early 1990s, Mr. Weintraub and his wife, Jackie, helped build Lithuania’s film industry after the fall of the Soviet Union. Fred Weintraub, whose Bitter End club showcased comic, singing talent in 1960s, dies at 88 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z Setting part of the show in the Soviet Union broadens the scope of the series. The return of FX’s masterful ‘The Americans’ — a Cold War with perfect chill 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z “Russia and former republics of Soviet Union are not strong in cheese culture,” said Ivanova. Ethnic Market Scout: Go for the cured meats and fish at Eastern European stores Throughout the Bond series, the Soviet Union remained an irrelevance, occasionally a gruff ally. The James Bond Films at 50: A Golden Franchise for the Ages 2012-10-05T12:00:58Z Others rushed to follow Stakhanov’s example, and newspapers and newsreels across the Soviet Union celebrated their efforts. Fitbitters of the world, unite! How the Soviets invented fitness tracking 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z “The ideology was discredited even in the army of the KGB sealing the fate of the Soviet Union.” New documentary re-examines fall of USSR 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z Priorities shifted further with the fall of the Soviet Union and end of the cold war. Growing up 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z There is something called the Cold War Museum, but it exists only online and concentrates almost exclusively on Gary Powers, the U-2 pilot shot down over the Soviet Union in 1960. America’s forgotten war 2012-11-23T15:00:00Z It was the day -- using the western calendar -- that Vladimir Lenin’s Bolsheviks overthrew the more moderate Kerensky provisional government, a decisive step in the revolution that eventually created the Soviet Union. Reuters reports big changes as Bolsheviks triumph 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z Once upon a time, the black marketeers of the former Soviet Union were known for using fake labels to pass off dodgy local products as expensive imports. 'Parmigiano-Belarussiano' and other secrets of Russian chefs under food ban 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z I came to the Soviet Union with a chamber orchestra from Vienna in 1990. An American Leads the Odesa Philharmonic to Berlin 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z But whatever you do, just do not call the show a comment on the Soviet Union. 'The Americans' dresses TV family drama in KGB disguise 2014-03-14T13:08:40Z It was a fine finale — or so we thought — for our first lunch at a small farmstead in Georgia, the fertile backyard of the former Soviet Union. Journeys: In former Soviet Georgia, Two Families and the Art of Hospitality 2011-05-27T19:01:58Z Consider this on the notorious "criminal orders" issued from Hitler's headquarters before the invasion of the Soviet Union. World War Two: A Short History by Norman Stone – review 2013-02-13T15:09:49Z Photograph: Arno Fischer I took this in the summer of 1957 when Nikita Khrushchev, then first secretary of the Communist party of the Soviet Union, visited Berlin. Photographer Arno Fischer's best shot 2010-10-27T21:45:00Z Yet for a broader public, both inside and outside the Soviet Union, it remained largely inaccessible. Special Report: Contemporary Art: A Russian Guru at Work in Venice 2011-06-13T12:00:06Z Elizabeth listened sympathetically as Evgheniya admitted to the affair, and then told Evgheniya to fight for her family’s happiness — presumably by returning to the Soviet Union. ‘The Americans’ Season 5, Episode 10: Puppet Master Paige 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z We start in the Soviet Union, the uncontested champion of artistic innovation after World War I — where Constructivist artists caught up in a revolution rebranded themselves as organizers, propagandists, fomenters of change. The Artists Who Redesigned a War-Shattered Europe 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z A nonfiction account of the silent war of Soviet-American espionage from the 1940s to the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union. The 25 Best Children’s Books of 2019 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z He traveled widely throughout the world, including the Soviet Union, where he developed friendships with many writers. William Jay Smith, former U.S. poet laureate, dies at 97 2015-08-22T04:00:00Z The Soviet Union had only one party, you couldn't express yourself freely, you couldn't admit belief in God. Andris Nelsons 2010-06-05T23:05:00Z Episode 11 of “The Americans” begins in the Soviet Union. ArtsBeat: ‘The Americans’ Recap: Invisible vs. Invincible 2014-05-08T14:43:04Z When a U.S. spy plane was downed in the Soviet Union, he looked for the upside: “If we’re lucky they may steal some of our secrets and then they’ll be two years behind.” What silenced the laughs for Mort Sahl, the once towering American comic? 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z I was born and raised in the former Soviet Union. Stuck in Western Samoa: Please let me come home 2012-10-10T00:00:00Z Things began to change when Germany invaded the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941. The Eagle Unbowed by Halik Kochanski – review 2012-11-09T22:55:09Z The early Soviet Union gathered unprecedented amounts of data on human motion, fitness, behaviour and genetics, making it a world leader in the field. Fitbitters of the world, unite! How the Soviets invented fitness tracking 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z His own narrative starts with the collapse of the Soviet Union, which happened the year he turned 14. Vassily Sigarev, a Voice From Russia’s Rust Belt 2012-07-29T22:00:23Z “That shifted in late ’60s and early ’70s when the Soviet Union stared to assert more influence on what policies were around free speech, communication and what was acceptable or not. Cuban Art Outshines Politics 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z She also covered the trial in Moscow of Francis Gary Powers, the United States spy plane pilot who was shot down over the Soviet Union. Jan Morris, Celebrated Writer of Place and History, Is Dead at 94 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z “Atlas Shrugged” is a nightmare picture not of America as it was in 1957, but of the ersatz Soviet Union it might become. Three Blockbuster Novels From the 1950s, and Their Remarkable Afterlife 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z In 1973, Arena Stage became the first regional theater selected by the State Department to present U.S. plays in the Soviet Union. Zelda Fichandler, Arena Stage co-founder and matriarch of regional-theater movement, dies at 91 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z But much like his past life, he finds himself lonely and doubly an outsider in the Soviet Union, with only a loose command of Russian and bullied by a factory coworker. Fifty years after Dallas, 'Killing Kennedy' taps into life of Oswald 2013-11-07T13:03:08Z “I grew up thinking the Soviet Union wanted to destroy us,” he said. When Russia was the villain: How this moment echoes the era of Cold War spy novels and ‘Rocky IV’ 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z “Under the Sun,” which opens theatrically July 6, uses contemporary North Korea as a proxy for Stalin’s Soviet Union. In ‘Under the Sun,’ a Documentary Masked and Unmasked 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z But what were they doing with the Soviet Union? 10 Questions Stranger Things Still Needs to Answer 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z At last year’s Venice festival, Mr. Loznitsa presented “The Event,” a found-footage chronicle of the fall of the Soviet Union as viewed in Leningrad. Sergei Loznitsa’s Movie ‘Austerlitz’ Observes Tourists in Concentration Camps 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z If I didn’t marry Sasha, he would be stuck in the Soviet Union, I thought, possibly forever. Modern Love: Breaking Free From the Nesting Doll 2013-08-01T20:02:45Z But when the hue is red, the official color of the Soviet Union, the reality is a little more complicated. Art Review: A Boris Mikhailov Survey Looks at Ukraine’s Soviet Era 2014-01-23T22:50:48Z Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union disintegrated alongside their parents’ marriage. Eric and Don have the Trump name, the money, the genes. Here’s what makes them different. 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z After the fall of the Soviet Union, borders became porous and life-changing decisions reversible. 'Panic in a Suitcase' a vivid immigrant tale of two cities 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z Writing in The Times in October 2015, Nicolas Rapold described this documentary as “a document of fear in today’s Ukraine and as a kind of ghost story about the Soviet Union.” On DVD, an American in Paris (and in the Soviet Union) 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z In 1934, it was the toast of Leningrad, as St. Petersburg was known then, before setting off on a tour of the Soviet Union for nearly two years. Stalin Didn’t Like This Opera, but Audiences Still Do 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z Initially a dealer who focused on Judaica, antique books and manuscripts, Mr. Zarug said he began hunting for things to buy in the Soviet Union after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Unknown or Unreal? The Shadow on Some Russian Avant-Garde Art 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z In a Soviet Union beset by economic stagnation and deprivation, Pripyat was an “oasis of plenty” — “a true workers’ paradise.” An Enthralling and Terrifying History of the Nuclear Meltdown at Chernobyl 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z Mikhail Baryshnikov and Gregory Hines dance their way through the Soviet Union in “White Nights.” What’s on TV Wednesday 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z The Soviet Union was supposed to be a classless society, but she knew better. 2010-01-12T23:49:00Z Two excellent shows timed to the Soviet Union’s centenary have explored the dreams and nightmares of Jewish artists of the left, and what became of their utopianism after 1918. The Best Art of 2018 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z He wanted most of all to afford expensive, imported goods—luxuries in the former Soviet Union. A Russian Fast-Food Chain Tries Its Luck in America 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z But the players despised Tikhonov and, like their nation, grew disenchanted as the Soviet Union buckled and dissolved. 'Red Army' explores Russia's soul through Olympic hockey, Slava Fetisov 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z Virtually no one in the American establishment gave serious thought to the here-today, gone-tomorrow possibility that the Soviet threat, the Soviet empire and the Soviet Union itself might someday vanish. Goodbye, age of great expectations: We know how America got here, but where does it go now? 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z World War II largely bypassed the peninsula, but the conflict with Japan prompted the Soviet Union to transform Kamchatka into a warren of military installations. Forged by Volcanoes, Kamchatka Offers Majestic, Magnetic Wilds 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z And Fichandler broke ground overseas, too, with the Arena plays she toured to the Soviet Union in 1973, when such cultural exchanges were virtually nonexistent. It’s almost impossible to overstate Zelda Fichandler’s impact on American theater 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z |
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