The Cold War, Zubok’s monumental and still highly readable history of the US-USSR confrontation period, explores how that conflict not only shaped the post-1945 world but also the parallels with ...

The book ends in 1953: when Stalin died, “in circumstances that are still subject to controversy.” For four cold decades, his war lived on.

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 ...

Jerusalem Post History Khrushchev and the Jews: The attitude of Stalin's successor to Soviet Jewry Between Stalin’s shadow and the Cold War, the Soviet leader both perpetuated and decried Soviet ...

Throughout Stalin’s rule, Soviet Jews were both instrumentalized and vilified – encouraged to help generate pro-Soviet sentiment among Western Jewish communities during World War II, only to ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, Soviet leader who helped end the Cold War, dies at 91 Mark MacKinnon Senior International Correspondent Vilnius, lithuania Published August 30, 2022 Updated August 31, 2022 ...

The first episode, about Stalin, Truman and the origins of the Cold War, feels perfunctory -- Leffler published an excellent book on the subject, The Preponderance of Power, in 1992.

MOSCOW — Mikhail Gorbachev, who as the last leader of the Soviet Union waged a losing battle to salvage a crumbling empire but produced extraordinary reforms that led to the end of the Cold War ...

UNRRA was a Soviet-Western collaboration, an idealistic internationalist organisation that predated the cold war split. UNRRA viewed the DPs as predominantly “victims of nazism”.