The USSR, or Soviet Union, was one of the most influential and complex political entities of the 20th century. This video ...

The Soviet Union stretched across Asia and Europe and ... Yet, it remains one of the most isolated nations on the map. The government controls media, politics, and daily life to restrict the ...

After the Soviet Union crumbled in the early 1990s, something altogether eerie was discovered. Hundreds and thousands of maps of countries and cities throughout the world had been drawn up by ...

Images from The Red Atlas: How the Soviet Union Secretly Mapped America, by John Davies and Alexander J. Kent, published by the University of Chicago Press In this map of San Diego, the added ...

It’s been 33 years now since the Soviet Union collapsed ... and coalition countries fighting in Afghanistan. This was an important strategic move that put the country on the map for western ...