At its peak, it had a population of 290 million and covered 1/6thof the world’s surface. The country spanned eleven time zones, bordered twelve states, and included hundreds of spoken languages and dozens of ethnic groups. How was the USSR organized? When it collapsed, the USSR was comp...
In the meantime, more liberal member of the CPSU raised the topic of correctional labour camps, which in reality were a vast network of forced labour camps, originally set up by the orders of Vladimir Lenin, reaching its peak during Stalin's rule from the 1930s to the early 1950s. Re...
The study of ex- pediency of hydrogen production at NPP at the period of load drop and its utilization in peak gas turbine installations (GTI). Voprosy Atomnoi Nauki i Tekhniki. Ser. Atomno-Vodorodnaya Energetika i Technologiya. M.: TsNIlatomin- form, vyp. 3(19), 3 - 6 (1984)...
Chess reached its peak during the Cold War - a time when it was crucial for the USSR to reign supreme in every contested field, especially the intellectual kind. The country was even referred to as “a socialist chess incubator”, while American grandmaster, Bobby Fischer, even learned Russia...
VD Zor'Kin,IM Danilov - 《Statutes & Decisions the Laws of the Ussr & Its Successor State》 被引量: 0发表: 2008年 The hygienic evaluation of the water quality of small rivers in the azerbaijan ssr ussr and the determination of their self purifying ability The article presents the decision...
“heresy”). This included both Czechoslovak reforms and Mao’s Cultural Revolution in equal manner. At that time China actually developed complex relations with Eastern Bloc countries such as Romania and Czechoslovakia behind Kremlin’s back. Essentially, everyone called each other “reactionary”...
OPEC had seen its share of the world market drop to less than a third in 1985, from about half during the 1970s. In February 1982, the Boston Globe reported that OPEC's production, which had previously peaked in 1977, was at its lowest level since 1969. Non-OPEC nations were at tha...
A rumour about this book spread outside the Soviet Union quickly after its publication in 1962. The author got offers for translation and publication abroad. However, restrictive administrative hurdles were too high. At this point, Carl Sagan, who got very much interested in publishing this book...
[Organization of the gathering, and administration of first aid to the wounded and their evacuation from subunits during a moving attack] The star was followed photoelectrically in two colors through five consecutive nights in 1968 at Kitt Peak National Observatory. The light of the fainter v......
1970s, women dreamed of boots “on semolina” – this is what the porous thick sole was called because of its resemblance to porridge. To buy ‘Salamander’ boots in this model, one had to stand in line and be ready to pay about 80 rubles, an unheard-of amount of money at the time...