19 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1878, Thomas Edison patented the first gramophone ... In 1986, the Soviet Union launched the Mir space station. It was occupied for 10 of its 15 years ...

It wasn’t always like that, despite his three Orders of Lenin and other Soviet honours, for Shostakovich’s life happened to run in tandem with the Communist regime and he frequently fell foul of the ...

Many forms of music were forbidden in the Soviet Union, especially in the ... such as drills, and old gramophones to build a recording machine. For the records themselves, they turned to an ...