Explores the rivalry and tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union stemming from their differing ideologies, and discusses the resulting events during the decade after World War II.
Presents the history of the Soviet Union, focusing on the rise and fall of communism and how the country's changing government affected global politics.
Presents the diary Nina Lugovskaya wrote while living in the Soviet Union in the 1930s, where she records the thoughts, feelings, and emotions the Soviet government interpreted as subversive before she and her family were sent to a labor camp in Siberia.
Discusses the history of the Soviet Union, from the revolution of 1917, through the Lenin and Stalin eras and the rule of such leaders as Khrushchev, Brezhnev, and Gorbachev, up to the formal dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Examines the land, people, and history of the Russian Federation, discusses the country's state of affairs and place in the world at the beginning of the twenty-first century.
