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World Factbook
provides in-depth country profiles with information on geography, people, government, economy, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues. It includes maps of... (Central Intelligence Agency) |
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Citizen Kurchatov: Stalin's Bombmaker
tells the story of a complex, world-class physicist who became the driving force the Soviet Union's race to develop the atomic and hydrogen bomb... (Oregon Public Broadcasting, supported by National Endowment for the Humanities) |
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Seventeen Moments in Soviet History
begins with the Bolshevik seizure of power in 1917 and ends with the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. It includes the Kronstadt uprising (1921), the death of Lenin (1924), the... (Macalester College, supported by National Endowment for the Humanities) |
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Reflections: Russian Photographs, 1992-2002
presents photos from the years following the collapse of the Soviet Union. Images include protests and religious ceremonies, soldiers and workers, Red Square and Siberia, reindeer... (Library of Congress) |
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World Treasures of the Library of Congress: Beginnings
explores the creation, heaven and earth, and the founding of civilizations, all from the viewpoint of 50 cultures. 170 images and stories from Bali, China, Ethiopia, Greece, Hungary... (Library of Congress) |
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Portals to the World
is a starting point for studying other countries and parts of the world. Learn about the culture, economy, geography, government, history, languages, politics, religions, and other... (Library of Congress) |
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Meeting of Frontiers: America and Russia
is a bilingual, multimedia digital library that tells the story of the American exploration and settlement of the West, the parallel exploration and settlement of Siberia and the... (Library of Congress) |
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Revelations from the Russian Archives
displays many formerly secret documents dealing with Soviet Communist rule such as material from archives that had been key working files of the Communist rulers until August 1991: the... (Library of Congress) |
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The Empire That Was Russia
offers photographs of the Russian Empire on the eve of World War I and the coming revolution. Medieval churches and monasteries, railroads and factories, and daily life and work of... (Library of Congress) |
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In the Beginning Was the Word: The Russian Church and Native Alaskan Cultures
resuscitates the vibrant, moving human exchanges that took place between the priests of the Russian Orthodox Church and Native Alaskans during the years 1794 to 1915... (Library of Congress) |
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