Geographical Location - Soviet Union

  1. Apollo-Soyuz Rendezvous Inaugurates International Cooperation in Space
  2. Arab Members of OPEC Institute an Oil Embargo
  3. Armenian Earthquake Leads to Calls for Building Reform
  4. Battle of Kiev
  5. Battle of Stalingrad
  6. Battles of Kharkov
  7. Battles of Moscow
  8. The Bedbug and The Bathhouse Exemplify Revolutionary Theater
  9. Brezhnev Doctrine
  10. Brezhnev Doctrine Bans Independent Behavior by Soviet Satellites
  11. Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster
  12. The Chernobyl Nuclear Reactor Explodes
  13. Cold War
  14. Commonwealth of Independent States Faces Economic Woes
  15. Construction of Siberian Gas Pipeline Begins
  16. Cuba Signs a Commercial Agreement with the Soviet Union
  17. Death of Stalin
  18. Détente with the Soviet Union
  19. Eisenstein’s Potemkin Introduces New Film Editing Techniques
  20. Ethnic Riots Erupt in Armenia
  21. Ethnic Strife Plagues Soviet Union
  22. Fiat Plans to Build a Factory in the Soviet Union
  23. The First Permanently Manned Space Station Is Launched
  24. The First Space Walk Is Conducted from Voskhod 2
  25. Gagarin Becomes the First Human to Orbit Earth
  26. Gorbachev Agrees to Membership of a United Germany in NATO
  27. Gorbachev Becomes President of Supreme Soviet
  28. Gorbachev Initiates a Policy of Glasnost
  29. Gorbachev Is Elected General Secretary of the Communist Party
  30. The Gulag Archipelago Exposes Soviet Atrocities
  31. An International Health Conference Adopts the Declaration of Alma-Ata
  32. International Whaling Ban Goes into Effect
  33. KGB (Komitet gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti)
  34. Khrushchev Denounces Stalinist Regime
  35. Khrushchev Falls from Power
  36. Kuleshov and Pudovkin Introduce Montage to Filmmaking
  37. Lenin Announces the New Economic Policy
  38. Lenin Approves the First Soviet Nature Preserve
  39. Lenin’s New Economic Policy
  40. Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Is Signed
  41. Luna 2 Becomes the First Man-Made Object to Impact on the Moon
  42. Luna 3 Provides the First Views of the Far Side of the Moon
  43. Lunokhod 1 Lands on the Moon
  44. The Moscow Human Rights Committee Is Founded
  45. Multiculturalism Dominates the Dance World
  46. Nations Agree to Rules on Biological Weapons
  47. Nazi-Soviet Pact
  48. Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty Goes into Effect
  49. Nuclear Powers Sign the Limited Test Ban Treaty
  50. Nuclear Waste Explodes in the Ural Mountains