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

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 ...

The Cold War ushered in a “renaissance for bomber aviation.” But the Kremlin’s demands for the Sukhoi T-4MS were more than the company could handle.

In the bleak and bitter winter of early 1947, the Nazi killing machine has been vanquished but Britain and America face the ...

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

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

The book also features the pianist Maria Yudina, who you may know from the opening of Armando Iannucci’s satire The Death of Stalin ... Soviet system waged its war on musicians.

Roosevelt and Churchill agree to allow Stalin to control the governments of Eastern Europe at war's end, thereby setting the stage for the future Cold War. As Soviet forces push into Berlin ...

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.