This Day in History: Lithuania became the first Soviet republic to declare its independence

On March 11, 1990, Lithuania became the first Soviet Republic to declare its independence from the Soviet Union. The U.S.S.R.
Foreign Affairs

The Shortest History of the Soviet Union

Fitzpatrick, a doyenne of Soviet historians, offers the lay reader a concise, chronological account of the Soviet Union premised on the notion that accidents, rather than inevitabilities, drive human ...
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Science in Russia and the Soviet Union : a short history / Loren R. Graham

pt. I. The tsarist period. 1. Russian science before 1800. 2. Science in nineteenth-century Russia. 3. Russian intellectuals and Darwinism -- pt. II. Russian science and a Marxist revolution. 4. The ...
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History of the Soviet Union in Ballad and Song, Vol. 1: Songs of the Revolution and Civil War [sound recording]

We renounce the old world (Workers Marseillaise) -- The red flag -- Varshavianka -- Boldly, comrades, in step -- -- We are the blacksmiths -- The Red Army is the most powerful of all -- Shooting of ...
The Irish Times

Exit Stalin: The Soviet Union as a Civilization – Accessible history of a new society

This accessible and comprehensive book by Cambridge academic Mark B Smith is the latest in a long list of histories of the Soviet Union. What sets it apart is that the author depicts the USSR after ...