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In 1966, American Dean Reed was the first western rock star to tour the Soviet Union
Release date:
21 Jul 2023
Duration: 9:00
More than 500,000 people barricaded the streets of Riga in January 1991
Release date:
18 Jul 2023
Duration: 9:00
The bloody conflict between Moldova and Russian-back separatists in the early 1990s
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13 May 2022
Duration: 9:00
How a catastrophic trade deal between the US and Moscow sparked a global food price shock
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08 Apr 2022
Duration: 9:00
Soviet scientist Vladimir Demikhov shocked the world with his two-headed dog experiments
Release date:
19 Feb 2024
Duration: 9:00
In 1990, a hunger strike led by Ukrainian students brought down the Soviet regime in Kyiv
Release date:
25 Jul 2022
Duration: 9:00
The American fast-food chain was a huge hit when it opened in the Soviet Union in 1990
Release date:
18 May 2022
Duration: 9:00
Artek, on the Black Sea coast, was the Soviet Union's most popular children's camp.
Release date:
25 Mar 2022
Duration: 9:00
Eyewitness accounts of the Russian Revolution of 7 November 1917
Release date:
07 Nov 2017
Duration: 9:00
In March 1917 Tsar Nicholas II abdicated ending centuries of autocratic rule in Russia
Release date:
14 Mar 2017
Duration: 9:00
Alexander Kerensky, overthrown by Lenin in 1917, comments on the Russian Revolution
Release date:
06 Nov 2015
Duration: 9:00
In 1917, a young girl watches the Russian Revolution unfold outside her window.
Release date:
03 Nov 2009
Duration: 10:00
Photographer Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii took the first colour photographs of Russia
Release date:
15 Mar 2017
Duration: 9:00
In 1916, the infamous holy man Grigori Rasputin, was murdered by Russian aristocrats
Release date:
29 Dec 2015
Duration: 9:00
Alexandra Kollontai was the leading Marxist feminist in Communist Russia.
Release date:
11 Mar 2016
Duration: 9:00
Robert Robinson, a black American engineer, spent 43 years in the USSR against his will.
Release date:
20 Jun 2016
Duration: 9:00
In 1930s Ukraine a famine exacerbated by Soviet policies left millions dead.
Release date:
28 Apr 2010
Duration: 10:00
In 1935, Alexei Stakhanov, a coal miner, became a Soviet celebrity.
Release date:
30 Dec 2015
Duration: 9:00
Tens of thousands of Polish officers were executed in the USSR during World War 2.
Release date:
11 Apr 2017
Duration: 9:00
In January 1944 the WW2 blockade of Leningrad finally ended after almost 900 days
Release date:
22 Jan 2014
Duration: 9:00
In 1942 starving musicians in besieged Leningrad performed Shostakovich's Symphony
Release date:
18 Sep 2015
Duration: 9:02
It is 70 years since German troops lost their battle to take the Soviet industrial city.
Release date:
01 Feb 2013
Duration: 9:00
Esteban Volkov recalls the murder of his grandfather, Leon Trotsky, in Mexico in Aug 1940
Release date:
19 Aug 2015
Duration: 9:08
In 1941, far-right Ukrainians declared independence, hoping for Hitler's support.
Release date:
30 Jun 2016
Duration: 9:00