A declassified Cold War-era file from the CIA has gone viral over its coverage of a supposed clash between Soviet soldiers ...

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 ...

Diplomacy after the war broke down over Soviet refusal ... He would be vindicated later when Khrushchev wrote that Stalin told him the Cold War really began with the Iron Curtain speech.

Black grouse and caviar helped Stalin get much of what he wanted, but his Red Army counted for more, says a notable historian ...

Josef Stalin, one of the most powerful and brutal leaders in history, left a legacy of death, destruction, and domination. In ...

On July 25, 1945, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin, and American President ... and set the stage for a post-war "cold" war that would be waged in the coming ...

The hijacking crisis of September 1970 occurred against the backdrop of a decades-long Cold War ... from World War II, the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., and they spent the years after 1945 racing ...

It is an opportune time to publish a history of the Cold War, dealing with global Russian influence and that country’s ...

Communist governments had taken over Eastern European countries after ... war in history. There is no third way. There were problems in Eastern Europe throughout the 1950s and early 1960s. The ...