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| 1968 |
| | | Alexander Solzhenitsyn's novel Cancer Ward is smuggled to New York for publication | |
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| 1969 |
| | | Russian chess player Boris Spassky beats Tigran Petrosian to become world champion | |
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| 1970 |
| | | Russian ballerina Natalia Makarova defects to the west while on tour with the Kirov company in London | |
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| 1970 |
| | | Alexander Solzhenitsyn wins the Nobel Prize for Literature but declines collecting it in Stockholm for fear of being denied re-entry to Russia | |
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| 1971 |
| | | The Soviets put into orbit the first space station, Salyut 1, but the crew of three die on returning to earth | |
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| 1972 |
| | | The SALT 1 treaty is signed by the US and USSR, limiting anti-ballistic missiles | |
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| 1972 |
| | | Russian composer Alfred Schnittke's First Symphony alarms the Soviet authorities and is denied a Moscow premiere | |
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| 1973 |
| | | The first volume of Alexander Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago, an exposé of Stalin's labour camps, is published in Paris | |
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| 1974 |
| | | Alexander Solzhenitsyn is deported from the USSR to West Germany for publishing The Gulag Archipelago | |
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| 1974 |
| | | Soviet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov defects from the Kirov company while on tour in Canada | |
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