Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov made history as the first person to walk in space. The spacewalk lasted 10 minutes. Also, on ...

Many Jews did not get in, at least not to the Soviet Union’s finest schools and universities, creating an incentive for them to leave. Sergey Brin’s family left their native Russia in 1979 ...

Admission to these schools was restricted to those recommended ... and seven other generals were found guilty of plotting to betray the Soviet Union to Japan and Germany. All were shot.