Russia has a long history of spying on the U.S. from the relative safety of Mexico City, dating back to the 1980s. Decades ...

The Stalin Note of 1952 proposed German unification, shaping Cold War history with unanswered questions and missed ...

Qanats can date back 3,000 years, but can be really tricky to find, especially in politically volatile countries.

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 ...

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

The Russian Review 'This is an ambitious and overarching reinterpretation of Stalin’s domestic and foreignpolicies - or actually the connections between the two - from the revolution and civil war ...

but also how long a Cold War, with all its implications of an enduring, militarized conflict, seemed preventable. London had, at the beginning, few of the specific ideological assumptions about the ...

The Soviet politician came to Space City in September 1989, and a Randall's supermarket cemented his worldview.

Young Stalin,” Simon Sebag Montefiore’s biography chronicling the life of Joseph Stalin as a bank-robbing gangster in ...

A new biopic is in the works based on Simon Sebag Montefiore's biography Young Stalin, which portrays the life of Joseph ...

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.