It was 80 years ago this month that James Burnham’s article titled “Lenin’s Heir” appeared in Partisan Review. It was the top ...

can be found in New York University's Washington Square News (www.aaronleonard.net). In 2006 Professor Geoffrey Roberts published Stalin’s Wars: From World War to Cold War, 1939-1953. In this work he ...

After Stalin’s death in 1953, it looked as though the Cold War might thaw a little. The new leader Nikita Khrushchev looked for a peaceful coexistence. In 1959 he said, There are two ways ...

Part of every student's Cold War indoctrination at my high school in upstate New York ... To drive this point home, Stalin is called Abraham and Bukharin Isaac. To remind all of you out there who were ...

That is one of the main findings of my new book, Stalin’s Wars: From World War to Cold War, 1939-1953 (Yale University Press 2007). “Had I been born and brought up in America,” Stalin told ...

Once upon a time, one could determine someone’s political position from his view of how the Cold War ended ... Roosevelt’s “soft” approach to Stalin); the continuation of these policies ...

According to Kennan, Stalin needed to believe in the triumph ... Soviet Communism soon dominated Eastern Europe. The Cold War had begun.

When in the late 1980s Russian historians found the doors to their archives opening, their publishers no longer afraid of the censors and parts of their public ready for revelations, they first ...

Stalin’s assumption that the wartime Grand Alliance couldn’t be sustained after the war left him determined to extend the ...

There is no third way. There were problems in Eastern Europe throughout the 1950s and early 1960s. The Cold War even spread to the Caribbean.

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