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 ...

At the rate that the Trump administration is alienating America’s friends and comforting its enemies, Russians may soon be ...

Millions of Russians- many of them Stalin's one-time friends- went to martyr's graves because they threatened his plans. Tens of millions more were consigned to living death in concentration camps.

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

Stalin could now wipe the cold sweat from his brow ... It gave them the soothing theoretical conviction that, barring war, nothing could shake their mastery over Russia. . . . Whoever, like ...

Roosevelt and Churchill agree to allow Stalin to control the governments of Eastern Europe at war's end, thereby setting the stage for future Cold War clashes. March: U.S. forces cross the Rhine ...

Iannucci satirized one of the most climactic moments of the Cold War in his darkly comedic satire The Death of Stalin, a star-studded film that features a standout performance by Jason Isaacs.

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.