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3 days ago · Map showing greatest territorial extent of the Soviet Union and the states that it dominated politically, economically and militarily in 1960, after the Cuban Revolution of 1959 but before the official Sino-Soviet split of 1961 (total area: c. 35,000,000 km 2) A map showing the relations of Marxist–Leninist states after the Sino-Soviet split ...
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Looking downwards into the silo of a (genuine) Titan II...
- Timeline of Events in The Cold War
This is a timeline of the main events of the Cold War, a...
- Culture During The Cold War
The Cold War was reflected in culture through music, movies,...
- Second Cold War
A Second Cold War, Cold War II, or the New Cold War has been...
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From 1950 onward the Chinese and the Soviet Union had been...
- Origins of The Cold War
The Cold War originated in the breakdown of relations...
- Cold War Espionage
Background. Soviet espionage in the United States during the...
- Sino-Soviet Border Conflict
The Sino-Soviet border conflict was a seven-month undeclared...
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5 days ago · Introduction. The collapse of communism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe in the late 1980s and early 1990s was a watershed moment in modern history. The once-mighty Soviet Union, which had dominated the region for decades and posed a formidable challenge to the capitalist West during the Cold War, disintegrated almost overnight.
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3 days ago · The results of the meeting shaped the world order for the next half-century up until the Revolutions of 1989, which culminated in the end of Soviet rule in the USSR's Central and Eastern European satellite states, eventually resulting in the dissolution and subsequent collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
1 day ago · Operation Barbarossa (German: Unternehmen Barbarossa; Russian: Операция Барбаросса, romanized: Operatsiya Barbarossa) was the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany and many of its Axis allies, starting on Sunday, 22 June 1941, during the Second World War.
May 15, 2024 · Overview. Thirty years after the unexpected collapse of the Soviet Union, Vladislav Zubok offers a major reinterpretation of this event, refuting the notion that the breakup of the Soviet order was inevitable. Instead, Zubok reveals how Gorbachev’s misguided reforms, intended to modernize and democratize the Soviet Union, deprived the ...
May 22, 2024 · Five years later, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was established, bringing together a confederation of states under the rule of the Communist Party. Starting in 1924, with Joseph ...
3 days ago · Under Soviet rule, Lithuania was subject to mass deportations and efforts to stifle its culture and language. Armed resistance to the USSR was largely extinguished in the early 1950s. After Stalin’s death in 1953, some modest liberalization occurred. Like the rest of the Soviet Union, conditions in Lithuania stagnated during the 1970s and 1980s.
