In the aftermath of the Second World War, as the Soviet Union imposed ideological control across Eastern Europe, the CIA ...

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The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 ended decades of Cold War tension and reshaped global politics. But what if the USSR never fell? What if Gorbachev’s reforms had succeeded, transforming the ...

Yordanov consulted more than 20 archives across Eastern Europe, as well as in Russia, Cuba, and the United States, to craft this superbly constructed history of Cold War diplomacy. The evidence he ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, who ended the Cold War without bloodshed but failed to prevent the collapse of the Soviet Union, died on Tuesday at the age of 91, hospital officials in Moscow said.

He forged disarmament treaties with Cold War enemies, freed political prisoners and ushered in the unfamiliar notion of free elections, cracking open the door for states in Eastern Europe to ...

Throughout the Cold War, and ever since, ... the Soviet Union bore the brunt of World War II, wearing down Germany's war machine in a savage war of attrition. There can, ... she also went out as an ...

The Cold War and its effects. Remarks delivered at the Jordan Center Workshop, New York University, November 1, 2024. My current reading of what Russia has become is based on my own experiences as ...

As we debate whether we're in a new Cold War, ... both viewed the Soviet Union as ... 32 of March 1982 said the United States would seek to neutralize Soviet control over Eastern Europe and ...

Much of the credit must go to Reagan for ending the Cold War. The Reagan administration worked to give people in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe accurate news and analysis about their ...

It’s been 33 years now since the Soviet Union collapsed ... expanding NATO to take in all of Scandinavia and most of Eastern Europe. ... A communist revolution in 1917 was followed by a civil war.

Sheila Fitzpatrick’s fascinating book chronicles a remarkable success story: the repatriation and resettlement of millions of displaced persons (DPs) in Europe after the second World War.By the ...