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 ...

Opened by communist Stalin, the dictator looked to access its ... were to receive a good salary and a flat to live. As the Cold War started and began to drag on, the city truly flourished in ...

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

Truman, in 1947 (another shift, this time toward confrontation and away from Franklin Roosevelt’s “soft” approach to Stalin); the ... that Reagan won the Cold War “without firing a shot.” ...

US ambassador Averell Harriman between Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin at the Kremlin Moscow, 4 August, 1945. The European chapter of World War Two was over, and the US and the USSR were ...

The Cold War had begun. Both Churchill and Roosevelt were later criticised for giving way to Stalin at Yalta. But practically, there was little the US and UK could do. Stalin already had troops ...

that reassesses the big questions of the Cold War from Stalin and Mao to Reagan, Deng, Gorbachev, and on to Putin, and illuminates not only the superpowers but also the global players from Vietnam to ...

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

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 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 ...

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.