But Brezhnev, who manoeuvred himself into power in Khrushchev’s stead, learned from the fall of his predecessor and tightened his grip on the levers of power. Yet the Soviet Union – thanks in ...

Nazi Germany had invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941 and killed an estimated 25 million of the country's civilians and military. But now, Adolf Hitler's Germany was on its knees. A depleted and ...

The most dramatic event during this period for people in the West was the fall of the Berlin Wall. While the communist regimes of Eastern Europe collapsed, the Soviet Union did not intervene.

One of the first capitalist countries to start supplying products to the USSR was Finland. Boxes of ‘Viola’ brand cheese with a girl on the label were eagerly bought. As were frozen vegetables ...

Fla., widely expected to become President-elect Donald Trump’s secretary of state, is a tough, disciplined, hard-liner on ...

The Vietnam War was a central conflict in the Cold War between the democratic United States and the communist Soviet Union ... support analysis of primary and secondary sources.

The economy of the Soviet Union was planned, not market-based. Prices for everything were fixed, calculated years in advance. The cost of goods was written right on the packaging. However ...

Timothy Ryback’s memorable book “Rock Around the Bloc” recounted how Elton John famously shook Moscow way back in 1979, playing “Back in the USSR” despite being expressly told not to.

And researchers have determined the core source of this labor shortage ... when competition from the Soviet Union led many in both parties to soften America's long-held racist laws like Jim ...

China, which has long been the primary partner of Pyongyang but ... which normalized relations with Moscow after the fall of the Soviet Union and said it will reconsider its ban on supplying ...

Korea and the Fall of the Mongol Empire explores the experiences of ... King Kongmin is controversial but through Robinson’s skillful use of Chinese, Yuan, and Korean sources, both primary and ...

Mozyrsky, 52, is an administrative law judge for the Social Security Administration whose family emigrated from Ukraine when it was part of the Soviet Union. He ran for City Council against Jo Ann ...