Former Chilean president Salvador Allende was warned by the Soviet Union, East Germany and Cuba that Chilean military officers were preparing a military coup against him, which was being ...

The Soviet Union detonated its first atomic bomb ... arrived in the middle of August. He observed the assembly work and reported back to Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. At 2 am on August 29 ...

As the president of Russia, the largest nation among the 15 republics constituting the Soviet Union, Boris Yeltsin denounced the conservatives’ move as a coup ... Moscow last August at the ...

I was born in the month of August in 1982. The Soviet Union was still in existence ... By Aug. 22, the coup had failed and so had the Russian Communist utopia. The political couple of Yeltsin ...

He was 76. Still fresh in my memory is an image of Yeltsin on the eve of the collapse of the Soviet Union. During a failed coup staged by conservative hardliners in August 1991, Yeltsin climbed ...

The Party's First Secretary has suggested that the Soviet Union suspend repayment of bonds worth 265 billion rubles (about $65 billion). Though a member for twenty years of the Russian Research ...

April 21: The Red Army of the Soviet Union reaches Berlin ... Potsdam Conference to discuss post-war issues; it lasts until August 2. July 26: Clement Atlee, who has defeated Churchill in ...