1918 :The Ukrainian People's Republic declares independence from Soviet Russia.

1918 :The Ukrainian People's Republic declares independence from Soviet Russia.On January 22, 1918, amidst the turmoil of World War I and the Russian Revolution, the Ukrainian People's Republic (UPR) declared its full independence from Soviet Russia through the issuance of the Fourth...

1974 :Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970, is exiled from the Soviet Union.

1974 :Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970, is exiled from the Soviet Union.  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, one of the most significant literary figures of the 20th century, became a symbol of the struggle against totalitarianism and oppression,...