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Portrait of the World USSR: Created by Ted Turner. With Roy Scheider. Award-winning documentary series, 7 one-hour episodes
TV Show TV Show Reviews Portrait of the World USSR. Portrait of the World USSR. 1987. Documentary/History. Advertisement. Cast. Roy Scheider (Self - Presenter) Advertisement. Creators. Ted Turner ...
Mikhail Gorbachev. Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev [f] [g] (2 March 1931 – 30 August 2022) was a Soviet and Russian politician who served as the last leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to the country's dissolution in 1991.
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- Formation of The Soviet Union
- Soviet Art Portrays A Worker's Paradise
- Stalin's Enemies Disappear During Great Terror
- Millions of Ukrainians Starve from Manmade Famine
- Stalinist Architecture: The 'Seven Sisters'
- The Space Race
- Khrushchev, Nixon and The 'Kitchen Debate'
- Loyalty on Display with 'Socialist Fraternal Kiss'
- The Chernobyl Disaster
- Mikhail Gorbachev Introduces Reforms
On November 7, 1917, Bolshevik forces led by the Marxist ideologue Vladimir Lenin and his compatriots Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin, seized power in the Russian capital, Petrograd. What followed was a protracted and bloody Russian civil warthat ended in 1921 with the victory of the Bolshevik Red Army. The Red Army not only took Russia, but was als...
This poster from 1923 is entitled “Long Live the 1st of May,” a day celebrated by Socialists since the late 19th century. The USSR circulated propagandist artwork like this to promote the ideal of the new Soviet state as a worker’s paradise of peace, equality and prosperity.
During the brutal purgesof Joseph Stalin in the 1930s, millions of Soviet citizens were branded as “enemies,” arrested by the secret police and shipped off to Siberian gulags. “In the course of just one year, 1937 to 1938, Stalin executed nearly 700,000 of his own people,” says Suny. “Elites, industrial bosses, cultural figures—anyone he saw as the...
The Ukrainian famine of the early 1930s was a man-made punishment for daring to stand up to Stalin. When Ukrainian peasants resisted mass resettlement to collective, state-run farms, Stalin decided to starve them into submission. An estimated 3.9 million Ukrainians died after Soviet forces confiscated Ukrainian grain harvests. This photo recorded t...
After World War II, Stalin ordered the construction of massive skyscrapers in Moscow to prove that the USSR was as wealthy and powerful as the West. "They go to America and they gasp, 'Ah, what huge buildings!'” Stalin reportedly said. “Let them now go to Moscow, see what kind of buildings we have, and let them gasp." Shown here are the Gothic-spir...
In the 1950s, the Cold War arms race expanded into a Space Racefor technological superiority. The Soviet Union took the lead on October 4, 1957 with the launch of Sputnik 1, the first manmade object to orbit the Earth. Next, the Soviets undertook a series of experiments with animals aboard the orbiters to test the feasibility of sending humans to s...
After Stalin’s death in 1953, Nikita Khrushchevinstituted a policy of “de-Stalinization,” says Suny, dismantling the gulags, reining in the secret police and giving more autonomy to the Soviet republics. But Cold War tensions continued to mount. One of the most famous flare-ups was the impromptu “kitchen debate” between Khrushchev and Vice Presiden...
This public lip-lock between the Soviet Union’s Leonid Brezhnev and East Germany’s Erich Honecker in 1979 commemorated the 30th anniversary of the alliance between the Communist states. The “socialist fraternal kiss” was embraced by Soviet leaders as the ultimate signof Communist party loyalty.
On April 26, 1986, the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine suffered a catastrophic explosion and fire, releasing more than 400 times the radiation of the atomic bomb that struck Hiroshima. Dozens of emergency responders died from acute radiation poisoning, and thousands more in the area contracted cancers from long-term exposure. The Soviet go...
When Mikhail Gorbachev came to power in 1985, he introduced a series of striking reforms that shook up 60 years of Soviet policies. Known in Russian as perestroikaand glasnost(“restructuring” and “openness”), Gorbachev’s reforms were intended to end political repression, democratize Soviet elections, and jumpstart the faltering Soviet economy. Gorb...
- Dave Roos
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23 nov 2018 · While covering a range of periods, for her the images from World War Two are particularly striking. “The time, when on the verge of life and death, photojournalists created masterpieces.
4 giorni fa · Soviet Union (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; U.S.S.R.), former northern Eurasian empire (1917/22–1991) stretching from the Baltic and Black seas to the Pacific Ocean and, in its final years, consisting of 15 Soviet Socialist Republics. The capital was Moscow, then and now the capital of Russia.
