From Berlin to Hanoi and Cairo to Havana, the United States and the Soviet Union clashed in an era known as the Cold War. For fifty years the Soviet Union stood in the eyes of the West as a …

Sep 1, 2017 · The Soviet Union, or U.S.S.R., was made up of 15 countries in Eastern Europe and Asia and lasted from 1922 until its fall in 1991. The Soviet Union was the world’s first Marxist …

Based on extensive archival research, this volume offers state-of-the-art essays about relations between Europe’s neutral states and the Soviet Union during the Cold War and how these …

During the Cold War the leadership of the Soviet Union underwent a gradual but dramatic shift from the dictatorial rule of Joseph Stalin at the beginning of the era to the reformist glasnost …

In the late 1970s, growing internal repression and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan led to a renewal of Cold War hostility. Soviet views of the United States changed once again after …

Learn how the world’s superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union (USSR), avoided nuclear war. During the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union amassed tens of …

Cold War, Open yet restricted rivalry and hostility that developed after World War II between the U.S. and the Soviet Union and their respective allies. The U.S. and Britain, alarmed by the …

The Cold War grew out of a failure to achieve a durable settlement among leaders from the “Big Three” Allies—the US, Britain, and the Soviet Union—as they met at Yalta and at Potsdam to …

Mar 23, 2022 · What was the Cold War—and are we headed to another one? The 45-year standoff between the West and the U.S.S.R. ended when the Soviet Union dissolved. Some …

The Soviet Union’s major ally during the first half of the Cold War, the communist-led People’s Republic of China, contributed massive numbers of troops to the conflict in Korea and provided …

1 day ago · He was drugged and interrogated but not charged, and Britain arranged an undercover operation to spirit him out of the Soviet Union — smuggled across the border to …

France–Soviet Union relations; France Soviet Union; Diplomatic mission; Embassy of France, Moscow: Embassy of the Soviet Union, Paris: Envoy; ... The two nations signed a treaty of …

Oct 24, 2022 · The Soviet Union’s major ally during the first half of the Cold War, the communist-led People’s Republic of China, contributed massive numbers of troops to the conflict in Korea …

In the summer of 1948, the Soviet Union cut off access to the Western sectors of Berlin, situated in the Soviet occupation zone of Germany. The Western powers organized a massive airlift to …

1 day ago · LONDON — Oleg Gordievsky, a Soviet KGB officer agent who helped change the course of the Cold War by covertly passing secrets to Britain, has died. He was 86. …

1 day ago · Cold War redux in more ways than one: Russia and the U.S. look to thaw relations in the hockey rink These overtures are part of a rapid warming between Moscow and …