Just like in the United States, when rock first began to become popular in the USSR, it was widely considered to be tasteless and violent, and a…… Read more “Countering the Counterculture”
A Dog Called Laika
With the successful launch of the Sputnik satellite, the Soviets gained a foothold in their ongoing Space Race with the United States. As they did not have…… Read more “A Dog Called Laika”
Literally the Only Time the US and the USSR Didn’t Hate Each Other
Seemingly from the inception of the Soviet Union all the way to present day, the Soviet Union and every version of it that followed has been at…… Read more “Literally the Only Time the US and the USSR Didn’t Hate Each Other”
Unsurprisingly, Stalinism Wasn’t Everything It Was Cracked up to Be
In a turn of events everyone should have seen coming, the progress promised by the revolution did not stick around. In the earlier days of the new…… Read more “Unsurprisingly, Stalinism Wasn’t Everything It Was Cracked up to Be”
Kornilov’s Attempted Coup Backfired Worse Than He Ever Could Have Imagined
The majority of Kornilov’s grievance with the provisional government rested around their inability or unwillingness to take decisive action against the Bolshevik, which makes it especially ironic…… Read more “Kornilov’s Attempted Coup Backfired Worse Than He Ever Could Have Imagined”
The Russian Cowboy and the Murmansk Railroad
In the 1915, when Sergeĭ Mikhaĭlovich Prokudin-Gorskiĭ took a photograph of himself and two railroad guards posing at a construction site, both the railroad and the war that…… Read more “The Russian Cowboy and the Murmansk Railroad”
Comrade Crunch 