National Archives and Records Administration The space race between the United States and the Soviet Union stepped up a gear ...

Over a few short months after the defeat of Nazism in May 1945, the ‘valiant Russians’ who had fought alongside Britain and ...

Prologue I remember President John F. Kennedy when, on June 10, 1963 gave the Commencement Address at the American University ...

Being young in the late 1960s and the early 1970s was risky business. Not since the Korean War had the anthem Uncle Sam Wants You been heard in America. We ...

If tragedy plus time is comedy, then what does comedy become? Insight? Farce? Revelation? It depends on what and who is writing about it. If the anglophone world’s best historian of the Soviet Union ...

Stranger-than-fiction plans are in place as the CIA tries everything to assassinate Fidel ...

I hope that, despite the devastating drone attacks by Russia on Ukraine and by Ukraine on Russia recently, that negotiations between the two countries will result in a cease fire and then a peace ...

While the reputation of Stalin suffered when the horror of his purges were revealed, he is still much admired by some ...

THE SOVIET Union was a brutal regime fronted by dangerous ... and was denounced by a later prime minster, Khrushchev, as a despot and mass murderer. But being a despot and mass murderer is ...

Soviet leader Josef Stalin's legacy includes mass purges and executions. Statues of him in Russia came down decades ago, but ...

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