A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Dec. 30, 1922, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, or USSR, officially came into existence, as leaders gathered ...

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 ...

Taking Korzhavin’s toast as its title, a new book by Benjamin Nathans dissects the history of the Soviet dissident movement from its rapid rise in the mid-1960s through its almost complete rout in ...

Darius von Guttner Sporzynski does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant ...

On Nov. 7, 1944, the convergence of both forces in Central Europe led to the only documented direct combat between American and Soviet forces in history. American P-38 Lightning fighters attacked what ...

December 30 marks a curious footnote in Soviet history that sounds almost absurd today: in 1932, Soviet authorities moved to ban or suppress publications and guidance labeled as “food for young ...