Her family, Soviet Jews, immigrated to the U.S. as refugees when she was 9, and she grew up in the Bronx. I spoke with her about her new album filled with songs about loneliness, love and a ...

The Break-Up of the Soviet Union. Witness History. The Presidents of the Soviet Republics of Russia, Ukraine and Belorussia met and signed a treaty which ended 70 years of Soviet communism.

On a cold February day in the 1970s, 15-year-old Alexey Pajitnov leaped over a pile of snow in Moscow. As he landed, his leg hit the pavement with “a ...

On June 22, 1941, Nazi Germany launched Operation Barbarossa, a massive invasion of the Soviet Union. The Great Patriotic War lasted 3 years, 10 months, 2 weeks and 3 days.

How David Greenglass Helped <br>Break Up a Soviet Spy Ring <br>That Was Plotting New Perfidy. This article is from the archive of The New York Sun before the launch of its new website in 2022. The Sun ...

Fireworks streak the sky in Moscow’s Red Square on New Year’s Eve in 1991, just a few days after the end of the Soviet Union and the beginning of the new Russian-led Commonwealth of ...

President Vladimir Putin of Russia has described the break-up of the Soviet Union as the "greatest geopolitical disaster of the last century". In a nod to Russians' lingering nostalgia for ...

The Break-Up of the Soviet Union. The History Hour. Key players in the fall of the USSR, including the signatories to the dissolution treaty, recall the momentous events of December 1991.

In December 1991 the leaders of three Soviet Republics - Russia, Ukraine and Belorussia - signed a treaty dissolving the USSR. They did it without asking the other republics, and against the ...

The Break-Up of the Soviet Union. Up next. American Communists. Princess Diana's Minefield Walk. Roots ... December 1991 saw the end of 70 years of communist rule and the collapse of the Soviet Union.